| Stalk-eyed mud crab | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Crustacea |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Infraorder: | Brachyura |
| Family: | Macrophthalmidae |
| Genus: | Macrophthalmus |
| Subgenus: | Hemiplax Heller, 1865 |
| Species: | M. hirtipes |
| Binomial name | |
| Macrophthalmus hirtipes (Jacquinot in Hombron & Jacquinot, 1846) |
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The stalk-eyed mud crab, Macrophthalmus hirtipes, is a marine large-eyed crab of the family Macrophthalmidae, endemic to New Zealand including Campbell Island.[2] It grows to around 30 millimetres (1.2 in) shell width.[2] It is either the only species in the subgenus Hemiplax[3] and the most basal species in the genus Macrophthalmus, or the only species in the sister genus Hemiplax.[4]