Stalk-eyed mud crab
| Stalk-eyed mud crab | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Crustacea |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Infraorder: | Brachyura |
| Family: | Macrophthalmidae |
| Genus: | Macrophthalmus |
| Subgenus: | Hemiplax Heller, 1865 |
| Species: | M. hirtipes |
| Binomial name | |
| Macrophthalmus hirtipes (Jacquinot in Hombron & Jacquinot, 1846) | |
| Synonyms [1] | |
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The stalk-eyed mud crab, Macrophthalmus hirtipes, is a marine large-eyed crab of the family Macrophthalmidae, endemic to New Zealand including Campbell Island.[2] It grows to around 30 millimetres (1.2 in) shell width.[2] It is either the only species in the subgenus Hemiplax[3] and the most basal species in the genus Macrophthalmus, or the only species in the sister genus Hemiplax.[4]
References
- ↑ Peter Davie (2011). "Hemiplax hirtipes Heller, 1865". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved November 20, 2011.
- 1 2 C. L. McLay (1988). "Brachyura and crab-like Anomura of New Zealand". Leigh Laboratory Bulletin (University of Auckland) 22: 1–463.
- ↑ Peter K. L. Ng, Danièle Guinot & Peter J. F. Davie (2008). "Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 17: 1–286.
- ↑ Colin L. McLay, Jun Kitaura & Kaiji Wada (2010). "Behavioural and molecular evidence for the systematic position of Macrophthalmus (Hemiplax) hirtipes Hombron & Jacquinot, 1846, with comments on macrophthalmine subgenera (Decapoda, Brachyura, Macrophthalmidae)". In Charles Fransen, Sammy de Grave and Peter Ng. Studies on Malacostraca: Lipke Bijdeley Holthuis Memorial Volume (PDF). Crustaceana Monographs 14. pp. 483–503. ISBN 978-90-04-17429-0.
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