| Conleyus | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Brachyura |
| Section: | Eubrachyura |
| Subsection: | Heterotremata |
| Superfamily: | Goneplacoidea |
| Family: | Conleyidae Števčić, 2005 |
| Genus: | Conleyus Ng & N. K. Ng, 2003 |
| Species: | C. defodio
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| Binomial name | |
| Conleyus defodio Ng & N. K. Ng, 2003
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Conleyus defodio is a species of crab, the only species in the genus Conleyus and the family Conleyidae.1 It lives in rubble beds in Guam, and is named after the collector Harry T. Conley.2
References
References
- 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.
- Peter K. L. Ng & N. K. Ng (2003). "Conleyus defodio, a new genus and new species of carcinoplacine crab (Crustacea: Brachyura: Goneplacidae) from deep rubble beds in Guam" (PDF). Micronesica. 35–36: 431–439. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-11-15.