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: Epigrapsus
Species: E. notatus – E. politus
Name
Epigrapsus Heller, 1862
Epigrapsus is genus of terrestrial crabs. The two[2] species are omnivores.
Epigrapsus notatus (Heller, 1865)
Epigrapsus politus Heller, 1862
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]
References
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.
WoRMS (2018) "WoRMS (2018). Epigrapsus Heller, 1862.", World Registry of Marine Species, 2018. Retrieved on 2018-07-23.
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
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