Ixa

Ixa is a genus of Indo-Pacific pebble crabs from the family Leucosiidae. The genus was erected by William Elford Leach in 1816.[1] One species, the Red Sea pebble crab (Ixa monodi), is a Lessepsian migrant and the species was first described to science from specimens collected on the Mediterranean Sea although the species is native to the Red Sea and had colonised the eastern Mediterranean through the Suez Canal.[2]

Ixa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Family: Leucosiidae
Genus: Ixa
Leach, 1816[1]
Type species
Cancer cylindrus
(Fabricius, 1777)

Species

The species classified under Ixa are set out below:[1]

  • Ixa acuta Tyndale-Biscoe & George, 1962
  • Ixa cylindrus (Fabricius, 1777)
  • Ixa edwardsii H. Lucas, 1858
  • Ixa holthuisi Tirmizi, 1970
  • Ixa inermis Leach, 1817
  • Ixa investigatoris Chopra, 1933
  • Ixa monodi Holthuis & Gottlieb, 1956
  • Ixa profundus Zarenkov, 1994
  • Ixa pulcherrima (Haswell, 1879)

References
  1. Davie, P. & Türkay, M. (2017). "Ixa Leach, 1816". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 16 March 2017.
  2. Holthuis, L. & Gottlieb, E. (1956). "Two Interesting Crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) from Mersin Bay, S.E. Turkey". Zoologische Mededelingen. 34 (21): 287–299.
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