Cyrtocarcinus

Cyrtocarcinus
Cyrtocarcinus truncatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Infraorder: Brachyura
Family: Xanthidae
Genus: Cyrtocarcinus
Ng & D. G. B. Chia, 1994
Species: C. truncatus
Binomial name
Cyrtocarcinus truncatus
(Rathbun, 1906)
Synonyms [1]
  • Harrovia truncata Rathbun, 1906
  • Glyptocarcinus truncatus (Rathbun, 1906)

Cyrtocarcinus truncatus is a species of crab in the family Xanthidae that lives in the waters around Hawaii.[2] It was described in 1906 by Mary J. Rathbun as Harrovia truncata, based on a single immature male specimen caught near Kauai.[3] Masatsune Takeda transferred the species to his new genus Glyptocarcinus in 1979, and Peter Ng and Diana Chia erected a new genus, Cyrtocarcinus, for this species alone, in 1994.[1]

References

External identifiers for Cyrtocarcinus truncatus
EOL 317719
ITIS 660646
WoRMS 444074
  1. ^ a b Peter K. L. Ng & Diana G. B. Chia (1994). "The genus Glyptocarcinus Takeda, 1973, with descriptions of a new subfamily, two new genera and two new species from New Caledonia (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Xanthidae)" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 42 (3): 701–730. http://www.aseanbiodiversity.info/Abstract/51003519.pdf. 
  2. ^ 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. http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s17/s17rbz.pdf. 
  3. ^ Mary J. Rathbun (1906) (PDF). The Brachyura and Macrura of the Hawaiian Islands. U.S. Government Printing Office. http://decapoda.nhm.org/pdfs/10727/10727-001.pdf. 


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