Lepidopa benedicti

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Hippoidea

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: Anomura Superfamilia: Hippoidea

Familia: Albuneidae
Genus: Lepidopa
Species: Lepidopa benedicti

Name

Lepidopa benedicti Schmitt, 1935

Type locality: Littoral zone of Veracruz, Mexico.

Holotype: CNCR 34795.

Etymology: named after James Everard Benedict.

Synonymy

• Lepidopa benedicti Schmitt, 1935: 210; — Boyko, 2023: 4–6, figs. 3–4.
• Lepidopa boykoi Ortiz, Tello-Musi & Morales-Moreno, 2018
  • Synonymised by Boyko (2023: 4).

References

• Boyko, C.B. 2023. Reappraisal of the status of two recently described western Atlantic species of sand crabs (Anomura: Albuneidae). Nauplius. 31: e2023021. DOI: 10.1590/2358-2936e2023021 . Reference page. 
• Murph, J.H.; Faulkes, Z. 2013: Abundance and size of sand crabs, Lepidopa benedicti (Decapoda: Albuneidae), in southern Texas. Southwestern naturalist, 58(4): 431–434. DOI: 10.1894/0038-4909-58.4.431
• Schmitt, W.L. 1935. Crustacea Macrura and Anomura of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Scientific Survey of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands. 15(2): 125–227. PDF. Reference page.