Biology:Forestia

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Short description: Genus of crabs

Forestia
Specimen of Forestia depressa.JPG
Forestia depressa
Scientific classification e
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

  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" (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. 
  2. 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. 

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