Epigrapsus

Epigrapsus
Epigrapsus notatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Subphylum:
Crustacea
Class:
Malacostraca
Order:
Decapoda
Infraorder:
Brachyura
Family:
Gecarcinidae
Genus:
Epigrapsus

Heller, 1862 [1]
Type species
Epigrapsus politus
Heller, 1862

Epigrapsus is genus of terrestrial crabs. The two[2] species are omnivores.

A new species, Epigrapsus villosus, is described from a cave in Guam which is distinguished from its congeners, E. notatus and E. politus in having its carapace and pereiopods covered with numerous short, stiff black setae, possessing well developed sharp epigastric cristae, pronounced anterolateral teeth, and elongate ambulatory dactyli and propodi.[3]

  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. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-06.
  2. ^ WoRMS (2018) "WoRMS (2018). Epigrapsus Heller, 1862.", World Registry of Marine Species, 2018. Retrieved on 2018-07-23.
  3. ^ Ng, Peter K. L. “On a New Species of Epigrapsus (Decapoda, Brachyura, Gecarcinidae) from a Cave in Guam.” Crustaceana, vol. 75, no. 10, 2002, pp. 1219–1227. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/20105508. Accessed 8 May 2021.