Tuerkayana Explained

Tuerkayana is a genus of large land crabs. It was created from two members of the genus Cardisoma and two members of Discoplax in late 2018 after a re-examination of the taxonomy of the family Gecarcinidae. Said re-examination also resulted in the creation of the new family Leptograpsodidae for the genus Leptograpsodes.^[1]

Species

The genus Tuerkayana comprises these four species:

• Tuerkayana celeste (Ng & Guinot, 2001) (formerly Discoplax)
• Tuerkayana hirtipes (Dana, 1851) (formerly Cardisoma)
• Tuerkayana magnum (Ng & Shih, 2015) (formerly Discoplax)
• Tuerkayana rotundum (Quay & Gaimard, 1824) (formerly Cardisoma)

Notes and References

1. Guinot. Danièle. Danièle Guinot. Ng. Ngan Kee. Rodríguez Moreno. Paula A.. 21 December 2018. Review of grapsoid families for the establishment of a new family for Leptograpsodes Montgomery, 1931, and a new genus of Gecarcinidae H. Milne Edwards, 1837 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Grapsoidea MacLeay, 1838). dead. 40. sp1. 547–604. 10.5252/zoosystema2018v40a26. https://web.archive.org/web/20190214163349/https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/sites/default/files/articles/pdf/zoosystema2018v40a26.pdf. 14 February 2019. Zoosystema. 92671389.