Discoplax
| Discoplax | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Discoplax longipes | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Brachyura |
| Family: | Gecarcinidae |
| Genus: | Discoplax A. Milne-Edwards, 1867 |
Discoplax is a genus of terrestrial crabs.[1] It is very closely related to the genera Cardisoma[2] and Tuerkayana.[3]
Discoplax contains the following species:[4][5][6]
- Discoplax gracilipes Ng & Guinot, 2001
- Discoplax longipes A. Milne-Edwards, 1867
- Discoplax michalis Ng & Shih, 2015
References
[edit]- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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. S2CID 92671389. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 February 2019.
- ↑ 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): 379–405. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3980.3.3. PMID 26249959.
- ↑ De Grave, Sammy (5 September 2020). "Discoplax A. Milne-Edwards, 1867". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 13 March 2025.
Further reading
[edit]- Murphy, Rosemary (2 January 2025). "The secretive annual migration of Christmas Island's blue crabs". ABC News (Australia). Retrieved 2 January 2025.
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