Geograpsus severnsi Temporal range:
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Holotype; scale bar is 10 mm | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Order: | Decapoda |
Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
Infraorder: | Brachyura |
Family: | Grapsidae |
Genus: | Geograpsus |
Species: | †G. severnsi
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Binomial name | |
†Geograpsus severnsi Paulay & Starmer, 2011
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Geograpsus severnsi is an extinct species of land crab from Hawaii. It died out shortly after humans colonized the Hawaiian Islands. It is the first known documented crab to become extinct after the ice age.