Goneplax

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Goneplax
Temporal range: Miocene–Recent
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Infraorder: Brachyura
Family: Goneplacidae
Genus: Goneplax
Leach, 1814
Synonyms [1]

Gonoplax Leach, 1816

Goneplax is a genus of crabs, containing the following extant species:[1]

  • Goneplax barnardi (Capart, 1951)
  • Goneplax clevai Guinot & Castro, 2007
  • Goneplax rhomboides (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Goneplax sigsbei (A. Milne-Edwards, 1880)

A further five species are also known from the fossil record,[2] dating from the Miocene onwards.[3]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Peter Davie & Michael Türkay (2012). "Goneplax". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved February 15, 2012. 
  2. Sammy De Grave, N. Dean Pentcheff, Shane T. Ahyong et al. (2009). "A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. Suppl. 21: 1–109. 
  3. Hiroaki Karasawa & Hisayoshi Kato (2003). "The family Goneplacidae MacLeay, 1838 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura): systematics, phylogeny, and fossil records" (PDF). Paleontological Research 7 (2): 129–151. doi:10.2517/prpsj.7.129. 


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