Hairy stone crab

Taxobox | name = Hairy stone crab
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Malacostraca
subclassis = Crustacea
ordo = Decapoda
infraordo = Anomura
superfamilia = Lomisoidea
superfamilia_authority = Bouvier, 1895
familia = Lomisidae [The name Lomidae may also be encountered.]
familia_authority = Bouvier, 1895
genus = "Lomis"
genus_authority = H. Milne Edwards, 1837
species = "L. hirta"
binomial = "Lomis hirta"
binomial_authority = (Lamarck, 1818)

The hairy stone crab, "Lomis hirta", is a crab-like crustacean that lives in the littoral zone of southern Australia from Bunbury, Western Australia to the Bass Strait [cite web |author=Keith Davey |title=Species bank: "Lomis hirta" |accessdate=2006-08-15 |url=http://www.deh.gov.au/cgi-bin/species-bank/sbank-treatment.pl?id=78172 |publisher=Department of the Environment and Heritage] . It is the only species in its family. It is slow-moving and covered in brown hair which camouflages it against the rocks it lives upon [cite web |url=http://www.museum.vic.gov.au/crust/mov1711t.html |year=1996 |title=Hairy Stone Crab |publisher=Museum Victoria] .

There has been some controversy about the relationship between "Lomis hirta" and the other anomuran families. Candidates for its closest relatives have included hermit crabs [cite journal | quotes=no|author = Dixon, C. J., F. R. Schram & S. T. Ahyong|year=2004|title=A new hypothesis of decapod phylogeny|journal=Crustaceana|volume=76|issue=8|pages=935–975|doi=10.1163/156854003771997846] , specifically king crabs [cite journal | quotes=no |author=Martin, J. W. & L. G. Abele |year=1986 |title=Phylogenetic relationships of the genus "Aegla" (Decapoda: Anomura: Aeglidae), with comments on anomuran phylogeny |journal=Journal of Crustacean Biology |volume=6 |issue=3 |pages=576–616. |doi=10.2307/1548195] , and "Aegla" [cite journal | quotes=no |title=Mitochondrial gene rearrangements confirm the parallel evolution of the crab-like form |author=Morrison, C. L., A. W. Harvey, S. Lavery, K. Tieu, Y. Huang & C. W. Cunningham |year=2001 |journal=Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B |volume=269 |number=1489 |pages=345–350 |url=http://www.biology.duke.edu/cunningham/pdfs/Morrison%2520et%2520al.pdf |doi=10.1098/rspb.2001.1886 |format=Dead link|date=May 2008 – ^{[http://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?hl=en&lr=&q=author%3A+intitle%3AMitochondrial+gene+rearrangements+confirm+the+parallel+evolution+of+the+crab-like+form&as_publication=%5B%5BProceedings+of+the+Royal+Society+of+London%5D%5D+B&as_ylo=2001&as_yhi=2001&btnG=Search Scholar search]} ] [cite journal | quotes=no|author = Porter, M. L., M. Pérez-Losada & K. A. Crandall|year=2005|title=Model-based multi-locus estimation of decapod phylogeny and divergence times|journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution|volume=37|pages=355–369|doi=10.1016/j.ympev.2005.06.021] . It is clear, however, that "Lomis" represents a separate case of carcinisation.

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