Biology:Scleroplax
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Short description: Genus of crabs
| Scleroplax | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Brachyura |
| Family: | Pinnotheridae |
| Genus: | Scleroplax Rathbun, 1894 |
Scleroplax is a genus of crabs in the family Pinnotheridae.
Species of the genus Scleroplax live as a commensal of various burrowing animals including the mud shrimp Neotrypaea californiensis, N. gigas, Upogebia pugettensis and U. macginiteorum,[1] and the echiuran worm Urechis caupo (known as the "fat innkeeper"),[2] and occurs from Vancouver Island, British Columbia to Punta Abreojos, Mulegé, Baja California Sur, Mexico.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Ernesto Campos (2006). "Systematics of the genus Scleroplax Rathbun, 1893 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Pinnotheridae)". Zootaxa 1344: 33–41. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1344.1.3. http://mapress.com/zootaxa/2006f/zt01344p041.pdf.
- ↑ Stanley J. Edmonds (2000). "Phylum Echiura". Polychaetes & Allies: the Southern Synthesis. Fauna of Australia: Polychaeta, Myzostomida, Pogonophora, Echiura, Sipuncula. 4, pt. 1. CSIRO Publishing. pp. 353–374. ISBN 978-0-643-06571-0.
Wikidata ☰ Q11847881 entry
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