Eriphia Explained

Eriphia is a genus of marine crustaceans in the family Eriphiidae.

Species

The genus contains the following species:[1]

Image Scientific name Distribution
Eriphia gonagra (Fabricius, 1781)[2] Western Atlantic Ocean
Eriphia granulosa A. Milne-Edwards, 1880the western Atlantic
Eriphia scabricula Dana, 1852Indo-Pacific.
Eriphia sebana (Shaw & Nodder, 1803)Indo-Pacific: north from Japan, China, Taiwan to southeast Asia, west to Australia, Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands to India, Oman and east Africa.
Eriphia squamata Stimpson, 1860eastern Pacific
Eriphia smithii MacLeay, 1838Indo-Pacific.
Eriphia verrucosa (Forskål, 1775)Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea and eastern Atlantic Ocean from Brittany to Mauritania and the Azores

Notes and References

  1. . 2008 . 17 . 1–286 . Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world . Peter K. L. Ng . Danièle Guinot . Peter J. F. Davie . amp . . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110606061453/http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s17/s17rbz.pdf . 2011-06-06 .
  2. Davie, P. . 2012 . Eriphia gonagra (Fabricius, 1781) . 422068 . 2012-12-25.