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Genus of crustaceans

Acanthaxius
Acanthaxius hirsutimanus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Family: Axiidae
Genus: Acanthaxius
Sakai & de Saint Laurent, 1989
Type species
Acanthaxius pilocheirus
Sakai, 1987 

Acanthaxius is a genus of mud lobster native to the Indo-Pacific oceans. It has a slender rostrum which is longer than the eyestalks, is spinose and has seven spines and has a depth range of 228–438 metres (748–1,437 ft).

Species

The genus Acanthaxius includes the following species:

Three species of Acanthaxius have been found off the Solomon Islands.

References

  1. ^ WoRMS. "Acanthaxius Sakai & de Saint Laurent, 1989". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 12 October 2024.
  2. Zoological Catalogue of Australia. CSIRO Publishing. 1998. p. 450. ISBN 978-0-643-06791-2. Retrieved 12 June 2012.
  3. Brian Kensley (1996). "A new species of the axiid shrimp genus Acanthaxius from the Caribbean (Crustacea: Decapoda: Thalassinidea)" (PDF). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 109 (1): 70–74.
  4. Gary C. B. Poore & David B. Collins (2009). "Australian Axiidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Axiidea)" (PDF). Memoirs of Museum Victoria. 66 (2): 221–287. doi:10.24199/j.mmv.2009.66.20.
  5. Nguyen Ngoc-Ho (2006). "Three species of Acanthaxius Sakai & de Saint Laurent, 1989, including two new to science, from the Solomon Islands and New Caledonia (Crustacea, Thalassinidea, Axiidae)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 1240: 57–68. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1240.1.2.
Taxon identifiers
Acanthaxius


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