| Stalk-eyed mud crab | |
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| Stalk-eyed mud crab at Manukau Harbour in Auckland | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Brachyura |
| Family: | Macrophthalmidae |
| Genus: | Macrophthalmus |
| Species: | M. hirtipes |
| Binomial name | |
| Macrophthalmus hirtipes (Jacquinot in Hombron & Jacquinot, 1846) | |
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The stalk-eyed mud crab (Macrophthalmus hirtipes) is a marine large-eyed crab of the family Macrophthalmidae, endemic to New Zealand including Campbell Island. It grows to around 30 millimetres (1.2 in) shell width. It is either the only species in the subgenus Hemiplax and the most basal species in the genus Macrophthalmus, or the only species in the sister genus Hemiplax.
References
- Peter Davie (2011). "Hemiplax hirtipes Heller, 1865". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved November 20, 2011.
- ^ C. L. McLay (1988). "Brachyura and crab-like Anomura of New Zealand". Leigh Laboratory Bulletin. 22. University of Auckland: 1–463.
- 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.
- Colin L. McLay; Jun Kitaura; Kaiji Wada; Charles Fransen; Sammy de Grave & Peter Ng (2010). "Behavioural and molecular evidence for the systematic position of Macrophthalmus (Hemiplax) hirtipes Hombron & Jacquinot, 1846, with comments on macrophthalmine subgenera (Decapoda, Brachyura, Macrophthalmidae)". Studies on Malacostraca: Lipke Bijdeley Holthuis Memorial Volume (PDF). Crustaceana Monographs. Vol. 14. pp. 483–503. ISBN 978-90-04-17429-0.
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| Macrophthalmus hirtipes | |
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