Biology:Maja brachydactyla

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Short description: Species of crab

Maja brachydactyla
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Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Brachyura
Family: Majidae
Genus: Maja
Species:
M. brachydactyla
Binomial name
Maja brachydactyla
Balss, 1922
Synonyms
  • Maïa gigantea Baudouin, 1931
  • Maja squinado var. brachydactyla Balss, 1922
  • Mamaia queketti Stebbing, 1908

Maja brachydactyla is a species of crab in the family Majidae.[1][2] It was initially described as a subspecies of M. squinado. A review of the species complex published in 1998 was able to differentiate between specimens from the Mediterranean Sea and those from the Atlantic Ocean, and concluded that the Atlantic specimens were a separate species, accepted as M. brachydactyla Balss, 1922.[3]

References

  1. "Maja brachydactyla". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=107347. 
  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". Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 17: 1–286. Archived from the original on 2011-06-06. https://web.archive.org/web/20110606061453/http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s17/s17rbz.pdf. 
  3. Neumann, V. (1998). "A review of the Maja squinado (Crustacea : Decapoda : Brachyura) species-complex with a key to the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean species of the genus". Journal of Natural History 32 (10–11): 1667–1684. doi:10.1080/00222939800771191. 

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