Biology:Forestia
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Short description: Genus of crabs
Forestia | |
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Forestia depressa | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Order: | Decapoda |
Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
Infraorder: | Brachyura |
Family: | Xanthidae |
Genus: | Forestia Guinot, 1976 |
Forestia is a genus of crabs in the family Xanthidae, containing the following species:[1]
- Forestia abrolhensis (Montgomery, 1931)
- Forestia depressa (White, 1848)
- Forestia pascua Garth, 1985
- Forestia scabra (Odhner, 1925)
The name Forestia commemorates the French carcinologist Jacques Forest.[2]
References
- ↑ 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. Archived from the original on 2011-06-06. https://web.archive.org/web/20110606061453/http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s17/s17rbz.pdf.
- ↑ Hans G. Hansson. "Prof. Jacques Forest". Biographical Etymology of Marine Organism Names. Göteborgs Universitet. http://www.tmbl.gu.se/libdb/taxon/personetymol/petymol.ef.html. Retrieved November 4, 2012.
Wikidata ☰ Q3748039 entry
Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forestia.
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