Petrolisthes

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Petrolisthes
Petrolisthes elongatus (New Zealand half crab).JPG
New Zealand half crab, P. elongatus
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Anomura
Family: Porcellanidae
Genus: Petrolisthes
Stimpson, 1858
Type species
Porcellana violacea
Guérin, 1829  [1]

Petrolisthes is a genus of marine porcelain crabs, containing these extant species: [2] [3]

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References

  1. ↑ P. J. F. Davie (2002). "Porcellanidae". Decapoda: Anomura, Brachyura. Volume 19 of Zoological Catalogue of Australia: Crustacea: Malocostraca: Eucarida (Part 2). CSIRO Publishing. pp. 94–108. ISBN   978-0-643-06792-9.
  2. ↑ Masayuki Osawa & Patsy A. McLaughlin (2010). "Annotated checklist of anomuran decapod crustaceans of the world (exclusive of the Kiwaoidea and families Chirostylidae and Galatheidae of the Galatheoidea) Part II – Porcellanidae" (PDF). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. Suppl. 23: 109–129. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-03-02.
  3. ↑ De Azevedo Ferreira, Luciane Augusto; Santana-Moreno, L. Daniel; Anker, Arthur (2020-10-02). "A new species of the porcelain crab genus Petrolisthes from the Pacific coast of Panama, with taxonomic notes on closely related species (Decapoda: Anomura: Porcellanidae)". Zootaxa. 4858 (4): 576–588. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4858.4.6. ISSN   1175-5334.


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