Menippe (crab)

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Menippe
Juvenile Stone Crab at Smyrna Dunes Park - Flickr - Andrea Westmoreland.jpg
Menippe mercenaria
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Brachyura
Family: Menippidae
Genus: Menippe
De Haan, 1833
Type species
Menippe rumphii
(Fabricius, 1798)

Menippe is a genus of true crabs. [1] One of the best known species is the Florida stone crab. Most of the species of this genus are found in the Atlantic Ocean.

Species

Menippe contains the following species: [2]

References

  1. P. K. L. Ng, D. Guinot & P. 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. De Grave, Sammy (15 December 2022). "Menippe De Haan, 1833". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species . Retrieved 30 November 2024.