Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Cladus: Pancrustacea
Superclassis: Multicrustacea
Classis: Malacostraca
Subclassis: Eumalacostraca
Superordo: Eucarida
Ordo: Decapoda
Subordo: Pleocyemata
Infraordo: Brachyura
Sectio: Eubrachyura
Subsectio: Thoracotremata
Superfamilia: Grapsoidea
Familia: Gecarcinidae
Genus: Discoplax
Species: D. gracilipes – D. longipes – D. michalis
Name
Discoplax Milne-Edwards, 1867: 284
Type species: Discoplax longipes Milne-Edwards, 1867, by monotypy.
Mentions
Discoplax A. Milne-Edwards, 1867: 284
Balss, 1957: 1671
Guinot, 1979: 152
Türkay, 1987: 145
Guinot, 1994: 168
Ng & Guinot, 2001: 312;
Davie, 2002: 185;
Ng et al., 2008: 214.
References
Milne-Edwards, A., 1867: Description de quelques espèces nouvelles de Crustacés Brachyoures. Annales de la Société Entomogique de France, (4)7: 263–288.
Milne-Edwards, A. 1867: Descriptions des espèces nouvelles des crustacés de St. Vincent du Cap Vert, pp. 33-44; in: L. de Folin & L. Périer, 1867-1872: Les fonds de la mer, 1.
Balss, H., 1957: Decapoda, VIII: Systematik. In: H. G. Bronns, Klassen und Ordnungen des Tierreichs. Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft, Leipzig, (5)(1)7(12): 1131–1199.
Guinot, D., 1979: Données nouvelles sur la morphologie, la phylogenèse (et al.) taxonomie des Crustacés Décapodes Brachyoures. Mémoires du Musèum national d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, (A) Zoologie, 112: 1–354, pls. 1–27.
Ng, P.K.L. & Shih, H-T. 2015. The land crabs of the Discoplax longipes A. Milne-Edwards, 1867 species group, with description of a new species from Guam (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Gecarcinidae). Zootaxa 3980(3): 379–405. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3980.3.3. Preview (PDF). Reference page.
Türkay, M., 1987: Landkrabben. Natur und Musum, Frankfurt am Main, 117(5): 143–150.
Guinot, D., 1994: Decapoda Brachyura. In: Juberthie, C. & V. Decou (eds.), Encyclopaedia Biospeologica. Tome 1. Société de Biospéologie, Moulis (CNRS) and Bucarest (Académie Roumaine). Pp. 165–179, pl. 3.
Ng, P.K.L. & D. Guinot, 2001: On the land crabs of the genus Discoplax A. Milne Edwards, 1867 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Gecarcinidae), with description of a new cavernicolous species from the Philippines. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 49(2): 311–338.
Discoplax is a genus of terrestrial crabs.[1] It is very closely related to the genus Cardisoma.[2]
Five species are currently recognised:[3][4]
Discoplax celeste 2012
Discoplax gracilipes Ng & Guinot, 2001
Discoplax longipes A. Milne-Edwards, 1867
Discoplax magna Ng & Shih, 2014
Discoplax michalis Ng & Shih, 2015
Discoplax rotunda (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824)
See also
Tuerkayana – a genus which holds crabs formerly found in Discoplax and Cardisoma[5]
References
D. Bright & C. Hogue (1972). A synopsis of burrowing land crabs of the World and list of their arthropod symbionts and burrow associates (PDF). Contributions in Science. No. 220. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-10-09.
Ng, Peter K. L.; Guinot, Danièle & Davie, Peter J. F. (2008-01-31). "Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world" (PDF). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 17: 1–286. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2011-06-06 – via the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.
Peter K. L. Ng & Peter J. F. Davie (2012). "The blue crab of Christmas Island, Discoplax celeste, new species (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Gecarcinidae)" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 60 (1): 89–100.
Peter K. L. Ng & Hsi-Tse Shih (2015). "The land crabs of the Discoplax longipes A. Milne-Edwards, 1867 species group, with description of a new species from Guam (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Gecarcinidae)". Zootaxa. 3980 (3): 379–405. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3980.3.3. PMID 26249959.
Guinot, Danièle; Ng, Ngan Kee; Rodríguez Moreno, Paula A. (21 December 2018). "Review of grapsoid families for the establishment of a new family for Leptograpsodes Montgomery, 1931, and a new genus of Gecarcinidae H. Milne Edwards, 1837 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Grapsoidea MacLeay, 1838)" (PDF). Zoosystema. 40 (sp1): 547–604. doi:10.5252/zoosystema2018v40a26. S2CID 92671389. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 February 2019.
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