Biology:Discoplax
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Short description: Genus of crabs
| Discoplax | |
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| Discoplax longipes | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Brachyura |
| Family: | Gecarcinidae |
| Genus: | Discoplax A. Milne-Edwards, 1867 |
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Discoplax is a genus of terrestrial crabs.[1] It is very closely related to the genus Cardisoma.[2]
Five species are currently recognised:[3][4]
- Discoplax celeste 2012
- Discoplax gracilipes Ng & Guinot, 2001
- Discoplax longipes A. Milne-Edwards, 1867
- Discoplax magna Ng & Shih, 2014
- Discoplax michalis Ng & Shih, 2015
- Discoplax rotunda (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824)
See also
- Tuerkayana – a genus which holds crabs formerly found in Discoplax and Cardisoma[5]
References
- ↑ D. Bright; C. Hogue (1972). A synopsis of burrowing land crabs of the World and list of their arthropod symbionts and burrow associates. Contributions in Science. No. 220. http://www.mosquitocatalog.org/files/pdfs/013600-0.pdf.
- ↑ Ng, Peter K. L.; Guinot, Danièle; Davie, Peter J. F. (2008-01-31). "Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world". The 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.
- ↑ Peter K. L. Ng; Peter J. F. Davie (2012). "The blue crab of Christmas Island, Discoplax celeste, new species (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Gecarcinidae)". Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 60 (1): 89–100. http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/60/60rbz089-100.pdf.
- ↑ Peter K. L. Ng; Hsi-Tse Shih (2015). "The land crabs of the Discoplax longipes A. Milne-Edwards, 1867 species group, with description of a new species from Guam (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Gecarcinidae)". Zootaxa 3980 (3): 379–405. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3980.3.3. PMID 26249959.
- ↑ Guinot, Danièle; Ng, Ngan Kee; Rodríguez Moreno, Paula A. (21 December 2018). "Review of grapsoid families for the establishment of a new family for Leptograpsodes Montgomery, 1931, and a new genus of Gecarcinidae H. Milne Edwards, 1837 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Grapsoidea MacLeay, 1838)". Zoosystema 40 (sp1): 547–604. doi:10.5252/zoosystema2018v40a26. https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/sites/default/files/articles/pdf/zoosystema2018v40a26.pdf.
Wikidata ☰ Q3021159 entry
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