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Genus of crabs

Scleroplax
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Brachyura
Family: Pinnotheridae
Genus: Scleroplax
Rathbun, 1894

Scleroplax is a genus of crabs in the family Pinnotheridae.

Species of the genus Scleroplax live as a commensal of various burrowing animals including the mud shrimp Neotrypaea californiensis, N. gigas, Upogebia pugettensis and U. macginiteorum, and the echiuran worm Urechis caupo (known as the "fat innkeeper"), and occurs from Vancouver Island, British Columbia to Punta Abreojos, Mulegé, Baja California Sur, Mexico.

References

  1. ^ Ernesto Campos (2006). "Systematics of the genus Scleroplax Rathbun, 1893 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Pinnotheridae)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 1344: 33–41. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1344.1.3.
  2. Stanley J. Edmonds (2000). "Phylum Echiura". In Pamela L. Beesley; Graham J. B. Ross; Christopher J. Glasby (eds.). Polychaetes & Allies: the Southern Synthesis. Fauna of Australia: Polychaeta, Myzostomida, Pogonophora, Echiura, Sipuncula. Vol. 4, pt. 1. CSIRO Publishing. pp. 353–374. ISBN 978-0-643-06571-0.
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Scleroplax


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