Biology:Heteractaea

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Short description: Genus of crabs

Heteractaea
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Heteractaea ceratopus
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Brachyura
Family: Xanthidae
Genus: Heteractaea
Lockington, 1877

Heteractaea is a genus of crabs in the family Xanthidae, containing the following species:[1]

  • Heteractaea ceratopus (Stimpson, 1860)
  • Heteractaea lunata (Lucas, 1844)
  • Heteractaea peterseni Garth, 1940

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. 

Wikidata ☰ Q5746775 entry