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Edwardsium

Edwardsium is a genus of crabs in the family Xanthidae, containing the following species:Edwardsium crockeri Edwardsium crosslandi Edwardsium lobipes Edwardsium spinimanum

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Edwardsium
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Brachyura
Family: Xanthidae
Subfamily: Euxanthinae
Genus: Edwardsium
Guinot, 1967

Edwardsium is a genus of crabs in the family Xanthidae, containing the following species:12

  • Edwardsium crockeri (Glassell, 1936)
  • Edwardsium crosslandi (Finnegan, 1931)
  • Edwardsium lobipes (Rathbun, 1898)
  • Edwardsium spinimanum (H. Milne-Edwards, 1834)
References

References

  1. Ng, Peter K. L.; Guinot, Danièle; Davie, Peter J. F. (January 2008). "Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 17: 1–286. Archived (PDF) from the original on 6 June 2011. Retrieved 8 June 2011 – via the National University of Singapore.
  2. De Grave, Sammy (2019). "Edwardsium Guinot, 1967". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 29 September 2024.