Maja (genus)

Maja (genus)
Maja
Maja squinado
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Infraorder: Brachyura
Family: Majidae
Genus: Maja
Lamarck, 1801
Type species
Cancer squinado Herbst, 1788

Maja is a genus of majid crabs, comprising the following extant species:[1]

  • Maja africana Griffin & Tranter, 1996
  • Maja bisarmata Rathbun, 1916
  • Maja capensis Ortmann, 1894
  • Maja compressipes (Miers, 1879)
  • Maja confragosa Griffin & Tranter, 1996
  • Maja crispata Risso, 1827
  • Maja erinacea de Ninni, 1924
  • Maja gibba Alcock, 1899
  • Maja goltziana d'Oliviera, 1888
  • Maja gracilipes Chen & Ng, 1999
  • Maja japonica Rathbun, 1932
  • Maja kominatoensis Kubo, 1936
  • Maja linapacanensis Rathbun, 1916
  • Maja miersii Walker, 1887
  • Maja sakaii Takeda & Miyake, 1969
  • Maja spinigera (De Haan, 1837)
  • Maja squinado (Herbst, 1788)
  • Maja suluensis Rathbun, 1916
  • Maja tuberculata De Haan, 1839

A further 12 species are known from fossils.[2]

References

  1. ^ 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. 
  2. ^ Sammy De Grave, N. Dean Pentcheff, Shane T. Ahyong et al. (2009). "A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology Suppl. 21: 1–109. http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s21/s21rbz1-109.pdf. 


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