Epigrapsus
| Epigrapsus | |
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| Epigrapsus notatus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Brachyura |
| Family: | Gecarcinidae |
| Genus: | Epigrapsus Heller, 1862 [1] |
| Type species | |
| Epigrapsus politus Heller, 1862
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Epigrapsus is genus of terrestrial crabs. The two[2] species are omnivores.
- Epigrapsus notatus (Heller, 1865)
- Epigrapsus politus Heller, 1862
A new species, Epigrapsus villosus, is described from a cave in Guam which is distinguished from its congeners, E. notatus and E. politus in having its carapace and pereiopods covered with numerous short, stiff black setae, possessing well developed sharp epigastric cristae, pronounced anterolateral teeth, and elongate ambulatory dactyli and propodi.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ 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.
- ^ WoRMS (2018) "WoRMS (2018). Epigrapsus Heller, 1862.", World Registry of Marine Species, 2018. Retrieved on 2018-07-23.
- ^ Ng, Peter K. L. “On a New Species of Epigrapsus (Decapoda, Brachyura, Gecarcinidae) from a Cave in Guam.” Crustaceana, vol. 75, no. 10, 2002, pp. 1219–1227. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/20105508. Accessed 8 May 2021.
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