Discoplax gracilipes

Discoplax gracilipes

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Grapsoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Superclassis: Multicrustacea Classis: Malacostraca Subclassis: Eumalacostraca Superordo: Eucarida Ordo: Decapoda Subordo: Pleocyemata Infraordo: Brachyura Sectio: Eubrachyura Subsectio: Thoracotremata Superfamilia: Grapsoidea

Familia: Gecarcinidae
Genus: Discoplax
Species: Discoplax gracilipes

Name

Discoplax gracilipes Ng & Guinot, 2001

Type locality: Virata Cave, Libaong, Panglao, Panglao Island, Bohol, Philippines, coil. local villagers, 18 Dec.2000.

Holotype: USC 4045

Synonymy

• Discoplax gracilipes Ng & Guinot, 2001: 324, figs. 9–11, 12B, 14–16; — Kobayashi & Naruse, 2023: 178–183, figs. 1–3, 4a–b.

References

• Kobayashi, H. & Naruse, T. 2023. A Distant Record of the Cavernicolous Land Crab, Discoplax gracilipes (Crustacea: Decapoda: Gecarcinidae) from Japan. Species Diversity. 28(2): 177–187. DOI: 10.12782/specdiv.28.177 . Reference page. 
• Ng, P.K.L. & D. Guinot, 2001: On the land crabs of the genus Discoplax A. Milne Edwards, 1867 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Gecarcinidae), with description of a new cavernicolous species from the Philippines. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 49(2): 311–338.

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