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 | |
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| Hepatus epheliticus (Linnaeus, 1763) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Brachyura |
| Family: | Aethridae |
| Genus: | Hepatus Latreille, 1802 |
| Type species | |
| Calappa angustata Fabricius, 1798
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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 edit
Wikispecies has information related to Hepatus.
- ^ P. Davie (2010). "Hepatus Latreille, 1802". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved December 6, 2010.
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ 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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