Biology:Stalk-eyed mud crab

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Short description: Species of crab

Stalk-eyed mud crab
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Stalk-eyed mud crab at Manukau Harbour in Auckland
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Brachyura
Family: Macrophthalmidae
Genus: Macrophthalmus
Species:
M. hirtipes
Binomial name
Macrophthalmus hirtipes
(Jacquinot in Hombron & Jacquinot, 1846)
Synonyms [1]
  • Cleistostoma hirtipes (Hombron & Jacquinot, 1846)
  • Macrophthalmus (Hemiplax) hirtipes (Hombron & Jacquinot, 1846)
  • Metaplax hirtipes Heller, 1865

The stalk-eyed mud crab, Macrophthalmus hirtipes, is a marine large-eyed crab of the family Macrophthalmidae, endemic to New Zealand including Campbell Island.[2] It grows to around 30 millimetres (1.2 in) shell width.[2] It is either the only species in the subgenus Hemiplax[3] and the most basal species in the genus Macrophthalmus, or the only species in the sister genus Hemiplax.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Peter Davie (2011). "Hemiplax hirtipes Heller, 1865". World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=558099. Retrieved November 20, 2011. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 C. L. McLay (1988). "Brachyura and crab-like Anomura of New Zealand". Leigh Laboratory Bulletin (University of Auckland) 22: 1–463. http://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/handle/2292/3450. 
  3. ↑ 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. http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s17/s17rbz.pdf. 
  4. ↑ Colin L. McLay; Jun Kitaura; Kaiji Wada; Charles Fransen; Sammy de Grave; Peter Ng (2010). "Behavioural and molecular evidence for the systematic position of Macrophthalmus (Hemiplax) hirtipes Hombron & Jacquinot, 1846, with comments on macrophthalmine subgenera (Decapoda, Brachyura, Macrophthalmidae)" (PDF). Studies on Malacostraca: Lipke Bijdeley Holthuis Memorial Volume. Crustaceana Monographs. 14. pp. 483–503. ISBN 978-90-04-17429-0. http://decapoda.nhm.org/pdfs/31625/31625.pdf. 

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