Biology:Discoplax rotunda

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Discoplax rotunda
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Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Brachyura
Family: Gecarcinidae
Genus: Discoplax
Species:
D. rotunda
Binomial name
Discoplax rotunda
(Quoy & Gaimard, 1824) [1]
Synonyms
  • Thelphusa rotunda Quoy & Gaimard, 1824
  • Cardisoma frontalis H. Milne-Edwards, 1853
  • Discoplax pagenstecheri Kossmann, 1878

Discoplax rotunda is a species of land crab in the genus Discoplax found in the Pacific Ocean.

References

  1. 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". Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 17: 1–286. Archived from the original on 2011-06-06. https://web.archive.org/web/20110606061453/http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s17/s17rbz.pdf. 

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