| Menippe | |
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| Menippe mercenaria | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Brachyura |
| Family: | Menippidae |
| Genus: | Menippe De Haan, 1833 |
| Type species | |
| Menippe rumphii (Fabricius, 1798) | |
Menippe is a genus of true crabs. One of the best known species is the Florida stone crab. Most of the species of this genus are found in the Atlantic Ocean.
Species
Menippe contains the following species:
- Menippe adina Williams & Felder, 1986
- †Menippe brevimanus Rathbun, 1945
- †Menippe burnsi Rathbun, 1935
- †Menippe cretacea Rathbun, 1935
- †Menippe floridana Rathbun, 1935
- †Menippe frescoensis Remy, 1960
- Menippe frontalis A. Milne-Edwards, 1879
- Menippe hirtipes (Lucas in Jacquinot & Lucas, 1853)
- †Menippe jacksonensis Rathbun, 1935
- Menippe mercenaria (Say, 1818)
- Menippe nodifrons Stimpson, 1859
- Menippe obtusa Stimpson, 1859
- †Menippe oceanica Rathbun, 1945
- Menippe rumphii (Fabricius, 1798)
- †Menippe zoque (Vega, Feldmann, García-Barrera, Filkorn, Pimentel & Avendano, 2001)
References
- P. K. L. Ng, D. Guinot & P. 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. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-06.
- De Grave, Sammy (15 December 2022). "Menippe De Haan, 1833". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 30 November 2024.
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