Echinoecus
Echinoecus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Crustacea |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Order: | Decapoda |
Infraorder: | Brachyura |
Superfamily: | Pilumnoidea |
Family: | Pilumnidae |
Genus: | Echinoecus Rathbun, 1894 [1] |
Type species | |
Echinoecus pentagonus Rathbun, 1894 | |
Synonyms [2] | |
Proechinoecus Ward, 1934 |
Echinoecus is a genus of crabs that live in association with sea urchins.[2] Formerly considered monotypic, the genus is now thought to contain three species:[2]
- Echinoecus nipponicus Miyake, 1939 – Japan, on Heliocidaris crassispina (Echinometridae) and Pseudocentrotus depressus (Strongylocentrotidae)
- Echinoecus pentagonus (A. Milne-Edwards, 1879) – East Africa and Red Sea to Hawaii and French Polynesia, on Diadema savignyi, D. setosum, Echinothrix calamaris and E. diadema (Diadematidae), Heterocentrotus mammillatus (Echinometridae) and Pseudocentrotus depressus (Strongylocentrotidae)
- Echinoecus sculptus (Ward, 1934) – Christmas Island, on Colobocentrotus atratus (Echinometridae)
References
- ↑ 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: 138.
- 1 2 3 Diana G. B. Chia; Peter Castro; Peter K. L. Ng (1999). "Revision of the genus Echinoecus (Decapoda: Brachyura: Eumedonidae), crabs symbiotic with sea urchins". Journal of Crustacean Biology. 19 (4): 809–824. doi:10.1163/193724099x00529. JSTOR 1549303.
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