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Metopograpsus messor | |
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Genus: | Metopograpsus H. Milne-Edwards, 1853 |
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Cancer messor Forsskål, 1775 |
Metopograpsus is a genus of crabs, containing the following extant species: [1]
A further extinct species is known. [2]
Portunus is a genus of crab which includes several important species for fisheries, such as the blue swimming crab, Portunus pelagicus and the Gazami crab, P. trituberculatus. Other species, such as the three-spotted crab (P. sanguinolentus) are caught as bycatch.
Gecarcoidea is genus of terrestrial crabs. The crabs live in forests but must come to the coast to breed. When it is dry in the summer the crabs are inactive, but when it is the wet season they are ready to migrate.
Maja is a genus of majid crabs erected by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck in 1801. It includes the following extant species:
Cancridae is a family of crabs. It comprises six extant genera, and eleven exclusively fossil genera, in two subfamilies:
Discoplax is a genus of terrestrial crabs. It is very closely related to the genus Cardisoma.
Discoplax rotunda is a species of land crab in the genus Discoplax found in the Pacific Ocean.
Epigrapsus is genus of terrestrial crabs. The two species are omnivores.
Cheiragonidae is a small family of crabs, sometimes called helmet crabs, placed in its own superfamily, Cheriagonoidea. It comprises three extant species, Erimacrus isenbeckii, Telmessus acutidens and Telmessus cheiragonus, there are no yet evidences of Cheiragonidae in the fossil record. Many of these crabs were formerly treated as members of the Atelecyclidae.
Actumnus is a genus of crabs in the family Pilumnidae. Alongside the 28 extant species, it has a fossil record extending back into the Miocene.
Matutidae is a family of crabs, sometimes called moon crabs, adapted for swimming or digging. They differ from the swimming crabs of the family Portunidae in that all five pairs of legs are flattened, rather than just the last pair, as in Portunidae. Crabs in the Matutidae are aggressive predators.
Hyas is a genus of oregoniid crabs, comprising five extant species:
Epialtidae is a family of crabs, containing the subfamilies:
Kingsleya is a genus of crabs in the family Pseudothelphusidae, containing the following species:
Achlidon agrestis is a species of crab in the family Pseudothelphusidae, and the only species in the genus Achlidon. It lives in rivers in Mexico and Costa Rica.
Karstarma is a genus of karst-dwelling crabs formerly included in Sesarmoides.
Cyrtocarcinus truncatus is a species of crab in the family Xanthidae that lives in the waters around Hawaii. It was described in 1906 by Mary J. Rathbun as Harrovia truncata, based on a single immature male specimen caught near Kauai. Masatsune Takeda transferred the species to his new genus Glyptocarcinus in 1979, and Peter Ng and Diana Chia erected a new genus, Cyrtocarcinus, for this species alone, in 1994.
Euryxanthops is a genus of crabs in the family Xanthidae. It was originally established in 1983 by Garth & Kim to contain three species of deep-water crabs from Japan and the Philippines - Euryxanthops dorsiconvexus, Euryxanthops flexidentatus and Euryxanthops orientalis. Since then, several more species of this genus have been identified and described, and Euryxanthops currently contains:
Micropanope is a genus of crabs in the family Xanthidae, containing one exclusively fossil species and the following species:
Neolioxantho is a genus of crabs in the family Xanthidae, containing the following species:
Xanthias is a genus of crabs in the family Xanthidae, containing two exclusively fossil species and the following extant species:
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