Axius serratus

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Axius serratus
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Family: Axiidae
Genus: Axius
Species:
A. serratus
Binomial name
Axius serratus
Stimpson, 1852  [1]

Axius serratus is a species of thalassinidean crustacean found off the Atlantic coast of Canada and the United States, from Nova Scotia to Maryland. [2] It is capable of living in areas which are so polluted that other benthic animals cannot survive. [3]

References

  1. "Axius serratus". Integrated Taxonomic Information System . Retrieved October 6, 2010.
  2. Brian Kensley (2001). "Two sympatric species of Axius from the north-west Atlantic (Decapoda, Thalassinidea, Axiidae)". Crustaceana . 74 (9): 951–962. doi:10.1163/15685400152682692.
  3. Michael J. Risk; Ronald D. Venter; S. George Pemberton; Dale E. Buckley (1978). "Computer simulation and sedimentological implications of burrowing by Axius serratus" . Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences . 15 (8): 1370–1374. doi:10.1139/e78-141.[ dead link ]