Hepatus

Hepatus is a genus of crabs in the family Aethridae, containing seven extant species,[1] plus some fossil species:[2]

  • Hepatus chiliensis H. Milne-Edwards, 1837
  • Hepatus epheliticus (Linnaeus, 1763)
  • Hepatus gronovii Holthuis, 1959
  • Hepatus kossmanni Neumann, 1878
  • Hepatus lineatus Rathbun, 1898
  • Hepatus pudibundus (Herbst, 1785)
  • Hepatus scaber Holthuis, 1959

Hepatus
Hepatus epheliticus (Linnaeus, 1763)
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Hepatus

Latreille, 1802
Type species
Calappa angustata
Fabricius, 1798

Both H. chiliensis and H. lineatus are also known as fossils.[2] The other fossil species include:[3]

  • Hepatus bottomsi Blow, 2003
  • Hepatus lineatus Rathbun, 1898
  • Hepatus nodosus Collins & Morris, 1976
  • Hepatus praecox Collins et al., 1996
  • Hepatus spinimarginatus Feldmann et al., 2005

References

  1. P. Davie (2010). "Hepatus Latreille, 1802". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved December 6, 2010.
  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.
  3. Rodney M. Feldmann; Carrie E. Schweitzer; Alfonso Encinas (2005). "New decapods from the Navidad Formation (Miocene) of Chile" (PDF). Journal of Crustacean Biology. 25 (3): 427–449. doi:10.1651/c-2547.


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