Stalk-eyed mud crab
| Stalk-eyed mud crab | |
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| Stalk-eyed mud crab at Manukau Harbour in Auckland | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Brachyura |
| Family: | Macrophthalmidae |
| Genus: | Macrophthalmus |
| Species: | M. hirtipes
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| Binomial name | |
| Macrophthalmus hirtipes | |
| Synonyms [1] | |
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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]
Macrophthalmus hirtipes is either a member of the genus Macrophthalmus, where it is the sister lineage to all other members of the genus and the only species in the subgenus Hemiplax, or it is the only species in the genus Hemiplax, which is sister to Macrophthalmus.[3]
References
- ^ Peter Davie (2011). "Hemiplax hirtipes Heller, 1865". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved November 20, 2011.
- ^ a b C. L. McLay (1988). "Brachyura and crab-like Anomura of New Zealand". Leigh Laboratory Bulletin. 22. University of Auckland: 1–463.
- ^ Colin L. McLay; Jun Kitaura; Kaiji Wada; Charles Fransen; Sammy de Grave & Peter Ng (2010). "Behavioural and molecular evidence for the systematic position of Macrophthalmus (Hemiplax) hirtipes Hombron & Jacquinot, 1846, with comments on macrophthalmine subgenera (Decapoda, Brachyura, Macrophthalmidae)". Studies on Malacostraca: Lipke Bijdeley Holthuis Memorial Volume (PDF). Crustaceana Monographs. Vol. 14. pp. 483–503. ISBN 978-90-04-17429-0.