Mithrax
Genus of crabs
Mithrax | |
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Mithrax aculeatus | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Order: | Decapoda |
Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
Infraorder: | Brachyura |
Family: | Mithracidae |
Genus: | Mithrax Latreille, 1816 |
Synonyms | |
Mitrax H. Milne Edwards, 1838 |
Mithrax is a genus of spider crabs in the family Mithracidae, containing about a dozen species that exhibit wide variation in body morphology.[1]
References
- ^ Windsor, Amanda M.; Felder, Darryl L. (2014). "Molecular phylogenetics and taxonomic reanalysis of the family Mithracidae MacLeay (Decapoda : Brachyura: Majoidea)". Invertebrate Systematics. 28 (2): 145. doi:10.1071/IS13011. S2CID 85848892.
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