Tuerkayana
Tuerkayana is a genus of large land crabs. It was created from two members of the genus Cardisoma and two members of Discoplax in late 2018 after a re-examination of the taxonomy of the family Gecarcinidae. Said re-examination also resulted in the creation of the new family Leptograpsodidae for the genus Leptograpsodes.[1]
| Tuerkayana | |
|---|---|
_002.jpeg.webp) | |
| Tuerkayana rotundum | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Brachyura |
| Family: | Gecarcinidae |
| Genus: | Tuerkayana |
| Type species | |
| Tuerkayana rotundum (Quay & Gaimard, 1824) | |
Species
The genus Tuerkayana comprises these four species:[1]
- Tuerkayana celeste (Ng & Guinot, 2001) (formerly Discoplax)
- Tuerkayana hirtipes (Dana, 1851) (formerly Cardisoma)
- Tuerkayana magnum (Ng & Shih, 2015) (formerly Discoplax)
- Tuerkayana rotundum (Quay & Gaimard, 1824) (formerly Cardisoma)
References
- Guinot, Danièle; Ng, Ngan Kee; Rodríguez Moreno, Paula A. (21 December 2018). "Review of grapsoid families for the establishment of a new family for Leptograpsodes Montgomery, 1931, and a new genus of Gecarcinidae H. Milne Edwards, 1837 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Grapsoidea MacLeay, 1838)" (PDF). Zoosystema. 40 (sp1): 547–604. doi:10.5252/zoosystema2018v40a26. S2CID 92671389. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 February 2019.
External links
Media related to Tuerkayana at Wikimedia Commons
Data related to Tuerkayana at Wikispecies
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.