Geograpsus

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Geograpsus
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Geograpsus crinipes
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Brachyura
Family: Grapsidae
Genus: Geograpsus
Stimpson, 1858
Type species
Grapsus lividus

Geograpsus is a genus of crabs in the family Grapsidae, containing four extant species, and one extinct species: [1] [2]

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 (PDF) on 2011-06-06.
  2. Gustav Paulay & John Starmer (2011). "Evolution, insular restriction, and extinction of oceanic land crabs, exemplified by the loss of an endemic Geograpsus in the Hawaiian Islands". PLoS ONE . 6 (5) e19916. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019916 . PMC   3095624 . PMID   21603620.