Coleusia

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Coleusia
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Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Infraorder: Brachyura
Family: Leucosiidae
Genus: Coleusia
Galil, 2006[1]
Type species

(Herbst, 1801)

Coleusia is a genus of Indo-Pacific pebble crabs of the family Leucosiidae. The six species currently recognised were formerly classed as members of the genus Leucosia but were separated into Coleusia in 2006 based on the fusing of segments 3-5 on the abdomens of the males and the three times axial coiling of the shaft of the first pleopod which bears a tufted lobe on its distal portion and has an elongated apical process.[2]

Species[]

The following species are currently included in the genus Coleusia:[1]

  • (Tyndale-Biscoe & George, 1962)
  • Promdam, Nabhitabhata & Galil, 2014
  • (Tyndale-Biscoe & George, 1962)
  • Galil, 2006
  • Coleusia signata (Paulson, 1875)
  • (Herbst, 1801)

References[]

  1. ^ a b Peter Davie (2011). "Coleusia Galil, 2006". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 20 February 2016.
  2. ^ Gella Galail (2006). "Contributions to the knowledge of Leucosiidae V. Coleusia gen. nov. (Crustacea: Brachyura)". Zoologische Mededelingen. 80.
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