Hapalogastridae Explained

Hapalogastridae is a family of decapod crustaceans, belonging to king crabs in the broadest sense, containing the following species:^[1]

• Acantholithodes Holmes, 1895
  • Acantholithodes hispidus (Stimpson, 1860)
• Dermaturus Brandt, 1850
  • Dermaturus mandtii Brandt, 1850 — wrinkled crab
• Hapalogaster Brandt, 1850
  • Hapalogaster cavicauda Stimpson, 1859
  • Hapalogaster dentata (De Haan, 1849)
  • Hapalogaster grebnitzkii Schalfeew, 1892
  • Hapalogaster mertensii Brandt, 1850
• Oedignathus Benedict, 1895
  • Oedignathus inermis (Stimpson, 1860) — granular claw crab
• Placetron Schalfeew, 1892
  • Placetron wosnessenskii Schalfeew, 1892 — scaled crab

Notes and References

1. Patsy A. McLaughlin . Tomoyuki Komai . Rafael Lemaitre . Dwi Listyo Rahayu . 2010 . Martyn E. Y. Low . S. H. Tan . Annotated checklist of anomuran decapod crustaceans of the world (exclusive of the Kiwaoidea and families Chirostylidae and Galatheidae of the Galatheoidea) Part I – Lithodoidea, Lomisoidea and Paguroidea . . Suppl. 23 . 5–107 . 2010-11-04 . 2012-01-22 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120122104557/http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s23/s23rbz005-107.pdf . dead .