Discoplax
| Discoplax | |
|---|---|
| |
| Discoplax longipes | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Crustacea |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Infraorder: | Brachyura |
| Family: | Gecarcinidae |
| Genus: | Discoplax A. Milne-Edwards, 1867 |
| Species | |
Discoplax is a genus of terrestrial crabs.[1] It is very closely related to the genus Cardisoma.[2]
Five species are currently recognised:[3][4]
- 2012
- Ng & Guinot, 2001
- Discoplax longipes A. Milne-Edwards, 1867
- Ng & Shih, 2014
- Ng & Shih, 2015
- Discoplax rotunda (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824)
See also[]
- Tuerkayana – a genus which holds crabs formerly found in Discoplax and Cardisoma[5]
References[]
- ^ D. Bright & C. Hogue (1972). A synopsis of burrowing land crabs of the World and list of their arthropod symbionts and burrow associates (PDF). Contributions in Science. No. 220. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-10-09.
- ^ Ng, Peter K. L.; Guinot, Danièle & Davie, Peter J. F. (2008-01-31). "Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world" (PDF). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 17: 1–286. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2011-06-06 – via the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.
- ^ Peter K. L. Ng & Peter J. F. Davie (2012). "The blue crab of Christmas Island, Discoplax celeste, new species (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Gecarcinidae)" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 60 (1): 89–100.
- ^ Peter K. L. Ng & Hsi-Tse Shih (2015). "The land crabs of the Discoplax longipes A. Milne-Edwards, 1867 species group, with description of a new species from Guam (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Gecarcinidae)". Zootaxa. 3980 (3). doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3980.3.3.
- ^ Guinot, Danièle; Ng, Ngan Kee; Rodríguez Moreno, Paula A. (21 December 2018). "Review of grapsoid families for the establishment of a new family for Leptograpsodes Montgomery, 1931, and a new genus of Gecarcinidae H. Milne Edwards, 1837 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Grapsoidea MacLeay, 1838)" (PDF). Zoosystema. 40 (sp1): 547–604. doi:10.5252/zoosystema2018v40a26. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 February 2019.
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