Eriphia
Eriphia is a genus of marine crustaceans in the family Eriphiidae, commonly known as sea spiders (or pycnogonids). The genus is widely distributed in the world's oceans and includes both pelagic (open water) and benthic (bottom-dwelling) species.
| Eriphia | |
|---|---|
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| Eriphia verrucosa | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Brachyura |
| Section: | Eubrachyura |
| Subsection: | Heterotremata |
| Superfamily: | Eriphioidea |
| Family: | Eriphiidae |
| Genus: | Eriphia Latreille, 1817 [1] |
| Type species | |
| Cancer spinifrons | |
Species
The genus contains the following species:[2]
| Image | Scientific name | Distribution |
|---|---|---|
| Eriphia gonagra (Fabricius, 1781)[3] | Western Atlantic Ocean | |
| Eriphia granulosa A. Milne-Edwards, 1880 | the western Atlantic | |
| Eriphia scabricula Dana, 1852 | Indo-Pacific. | |
 | Eriphia sebana (Shaw & Nodder, 1803) | Indo-Pacific: north from Japan, China, Taiwan to southeast Asia, west to Australia, Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands to India, Oman and east Africa. |
| Eriphia squamata Stimpson, 1860 | eastern Pacific | |
 | Eriphia smithii MacLeay, 1838 | Indo-Pacific. |
 | Eriphia verrucosa (Forskål, 1775) | Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea and eastern Atlantic Ocean from Brittany to Mauritania and the Azores |
References
- "Eriphia Latreille, 1817". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved February 27, 2011.
- 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. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-06.
- Davie, P. (2012). "Eriphia gonagra (Fabricius, 1781)". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2012-12-25.
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