Plagusia

Plagusia
Plagusia dentipes
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Brachyura
Family: Plagusiidae
Genus:
Latreille, 1804
Type species
Cancer depressus
Fabricius, 1775
Synonyms [1]
  • Philyra De Haan, 1833 (preoccupied by Philyra Latreille, 1829)
Plagusia dentipes painted by Kawahara Keiga in the period 1823 - 1829.

Plagusia is a genus of crabs in the family Plagusiidae, containing the following species:[2]

  • Plagusia depressa (Fabricius, 1775)
  • Plagusia immaculata Lamarck, 1818
  • Plagusia integripes Garth, 1973
  • Plagusia speciosa Dana, 1852
  • Plagusia squamosa (Herbst, 1790)

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ Peter Davie; Charles Fransen & Michael Türkay (2012). "Plagusia Latreille, 1804". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved December 11, 2012.
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