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Heteractaea

Heteractaea is a genus of crabs in the family Xanthidae, containing the following species:Heteractaea ceratopus Heteractaea lunata Heteractaea peterseni Garth, 1940

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Heteractaea
Heteractaea ceratopus
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Brachyura
Family: Xanthidae
Subfamily: Actaeinae
Genus: Heteractaea
Lockington, 1877

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

  • Heteractaea ceratopus (Stimpson, 1860)
  • Heteractaea lunata (Lucas, 1844)
  • Heteractaea peterseni Garth, 1940
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. Ahyong, Shane T. (2024). "Heteractaea Lockington, 1877". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 29 September 2024.