Hepatus

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Hepatus
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Hepatus epheliticus (Linnaeus, 1763)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Brachyura
Family: Aethridae
Genus: Hepatus
Latreille, 1802
Type species
Calappa angustata
Fabricius, 1798

Hepatus is a genus of crabs in the family Aethridae, containing seven extant species, [1] plus some fossil species: [2]

Both H. chiliensis and H. lineatus are also known as fossils. [2] The other fossil species include: [3]

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References

  1. P. Davie (2010). "Hepatus Latreille, 1802". World Register of Marine Species . Retrieved December 6, 2010.
  2. 1 2 Sammy De Grave; N. Dean Pentcheff; Shane T. Ahyong; et al. (2009). "A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology . Suppl. 21: 1–109. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-06.
  3. Rodney M. Feldmann; Carrie E. Schweitzer; Alfonso Encinas (2005). "New decapods from the Navidad Formation (Miocene) of Chile" (PDF). Journal of Crustacean Biology . 25 (3): 427–449. doi: 10.1651/c-2547 .