Stalk-eyed mud crab

Stalk-eyed mud crab
	Stalk-eyed mud crab at Manukau Harbour in Auckland
Scientific classification
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)
Synonyms [1]
	Cleistostoma hirtipes (Hombron & Jacquinot, 1846); Macrophthalmus (Hemiplax) hirtipes (Hombron & Jacquinot, 1846); Metaplax hirtipes Heller, 1865;

The stalk-eyed mud crab, Macrophthalmus hirtipes, is a marine large-eyed crab of the family Macrophthalmidae, endemic to New Zealand including Campbell Island.[2] It grows to around 30 millimetres (1.2 in) shell width.[2] It is either the only species in the subgenus Hemiplax[3] and the most basal species in the genus Macrophthalmus, or the only species in the sister genus Hemiplax.[4]

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. University of Auckland. 22: 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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[1] Peter Davie (2011). "Hemiplax hirtipes Heller, 1865". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved November 20, 2011.

[McLay-2] C. L. McLay (1988). "Brachyura and crab-like Anomura of New Zealand". Leigh Laboratory Bulletin. University of Auckland. 22: 1–463.

[Ng-3] 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.

[4] 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.