Hepatus Explained

Hepatus is a genus of crabs in the family Aethridae, containing seven extant species,^[1] plus some fossil species:^[2]

• Hepatus chiliensis H. Milne-Edwards, 1837
• Hepatus epheliticus (Linnaeus, 1763)
• Hepatus gronovii Holthuis, 1959
• Hepatus kossmanni Neumann, 1878
• Hepatus lineatus Rathbun, 1898
• Hepatus pudibundus (Herbst, 1785)
• Hepatus scaber Holthuis, 1959

Both H. chiliensis and H. lineatus are also known as fossils.^[2] The other fossil species include:^[3]

• Hepatus bottomsi Blow, 2003
• Hepatus lineatus Rathbun, 1898
• Hepatus nodosus Collins & Morris, 1976
• Hepatus praecox Collins et al., 1996
• Hepatus spinimarginatus Feldmann et al., 2005

Notes and References

1. Web site: P. Davie . 2010 . Hepatus Latreille, 1802 . . December 6, 2010.
2. . 2009 . Suppl. 21 . 1–109 . A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans . Sammy De Grave . N. Dean Pentcheff . Shane T. Ahyong . etal . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110606064728/http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s21/s21rbz1-109.pdf . 2011-06-06 .
3. Rodney M. Feldmann . Carrie E. Schweitzer . Alfonso Encinas . 2005 . New decapods from the Navidad Formation (Miocene) of Chile . . 25 . 3 . 427–449 . 10.1651/c-2547. free .