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Genus of crabs

Metopograpsus
Metopograpsus messor
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Brachyura
Family: Grapsidae
Genus: Metopograpsus
H. Milne-Edwards, 1853
Type species
Cancer messor
Forsskål, 1775

Metopograpsus is a genus of crabs, containing the following extant species:

A further extinct species is known.

Gallery

  • Metopograpsus latifrons from Karwar, India Metopograpsus latifrons from Karwar, India
  • Metopograpsus messor from India Metopograpsus messor from India
  • Unidentified species of Metopograpsus Unidentified species of Metopograpsus

References

  1. Peter K. L. Ng; Danièle Guinot & Peter 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.
  2. Sammy De Grave; N. Dean Pentcheff; Shane T. Ahyong; et al. (2009). "A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. Suppl. 21: 1–109. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-06.
Taxon identifiers
Metopograpsus


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