Plagusia squamosa

Plagusia squamosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Infraorder: Brachyura
Family: Plagusiidae
Genus: Plagusia
Species: P. squamosa
Binomial name
Plagusia squamosa
(Herbst, 1790)
Synonyms [1]
  • Cancer squamosus Herbst, 1790
  • Grapse tuberculatus Latreille, 1812
  • Plagusia tuberculata Latreille, 1818
  • Plagusia orientalis Stimpson, 1858

Plagusia squamosa is a marine crab of the family Plagusiidae, formerly considered a subspecies of Plagusia depressa (as P. d. tuberculata).[1] It is found in tropical Indo-Pacific oceans.

References

  1. 1 2 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.


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