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Medaeops

Medaeops is a genus of crabs in the family Xanthidae, containing the following species:Medaeops edwardsi Guinot, 1967 Medaeops gemini Davie, 1997 Medaeops granulosus Medaeops japonicus †Medaeops megamiensis Karasawa, 1993 Medaeops merodontos Davie, 1997 Medaeops neglectus Medaeops potens Mendoza, Chong & Ng, 2009 Medaeops serenei Ng & McLay, 2007

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

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

  • Medaeops edwardsi Guinot, 1967
  • Medaeops gemini Davie, 1997
  • Medaeops granulosus (Haswell, 1882)
  • Medaeops japonicus (Rathbun, 1898)
  • Medaeops megamiensis Karasawa, 1993
  • Medaeops merodontos Davie, 1997
  • Medaeops neglectus (Balss, 1922)
  • Medaeops potens Mendoza, Chong & Ng, 2009
  • Medaeops serenei Ng & McLay, 2007
References

References

  1. 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.
  2. De Grave, Sammy (27 July 2019). "Medaeops Guinot, 1967". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 8 March 2025.