Hairy stone crab

Hairy stone crab
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Infraorder: Anomura
Superfamily: Lomisoidea
Bouvier, 1895
Family: Lomisidae [Note 1]
Bouvier, 1895
Genus: Lomis
H. Milne Edwards, 1837
Species: L. hirta
Binomial name
Lomis hirta
(Lamarck, 1818)

The hairy stone crab, Lomis hirta, is a crab-like crustacean that lives in the littoral zone of southern Australia from Bunbury, Western Australia to the Bass Strait.[2] It is the only species in its family. It is slow-moving and covered in brown hair which camouflages it against the rocks it lives upon.[3]

There has been some controversy about the relationship between Lomis hirta and the other anomuran families. Candidates for its closest relatives have included hermit crabs,[4] specifically king crabs,[5] and Aegla.[6][7] It is clear, however, that Lomis represents a separate case of carcinisation.

Notes

  1. ↑ The name "Lomidae" may also be encountered, but is incorrect.[1]

References

  1. ↑ Patsy A. McLaughlin, Tomoyuki Komai, Rafael Lemaitre & Dwi Listyo Rahayu (2010). Martyn E. Y. Low and S. H. Tan, ed. "Annotated checklist of anomuran decapod crustaceans of the world (exclusive of the Kiwaoidea and families Chirostylidae and Galatheidae of the Galatheoidea)" (PDF). Zootaxa. Suppl. 23: 5–107. |chapter= ignored (help)
  2. ↑ Keith Davey. "Species bank: Lomis hirta". Department of the Environment and Heritage. Retrieved August 15, 2006.
  3. ↑ "Hairy Stone Crab". Museum Victoria. 1996.
  4. ↑ Dixon, C. J., F. R. Schram & S. T. Ahyong (2004). "A new hypothesis of decapod phylogeny". Crustaceana 76 (8): 935–975. doi:10.1163/156854003771997846.
  5. ↑ Martin, J. W. & L. G. Abele (1986). "Phylogenetic relationships of the genus Aegla (Decapoda: Anomura: Aeglidae), with comments on anomuran phylogeny". Journal of Crustacean Biology (The Crustacean Society) 6 (3): 576–616. doi:10.2307/1548195. JSTOR 1548195.
  6. ↑ Morrison, C. L., A. W. Harvey, S. Lavery, K. Tieu, Y. Huang & C. W. Cunningham (2001). "Mitochondrial gene rearrangements confirm the parallel evolution of the crab-like form" (PDF). Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 269 (1489): 345–350. doi:10.1098/rspb.2001.1886. PMC 1690904. PMID 11886621.
  7. ↑ Porter, M. L., M. Pérez-Losada & K. A. Crandall (2005). "Model-based multi-locus estimation of decapod phylogeny and divergence times". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 37 (2): 355–369. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2005.06.021. PMID 16112880.