Guinot, Danièle;Ng, Ngan Kee;Rodríguez Moreno, Paula A.
Tuerkayana
Sign in to saveTuerkayana 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.
Species
Pacific Blue Crab
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassMalacostraca
- OrderDecapoda
- FamilyGecarcinidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 7
- Family
- Gecarcinidae
- Collections
- QM, MNHN, AM
- Recorded in
- Solomon Islands, New Caledonia, Philippines, Chinese Taipei, Nouvelle-Caledonie
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- Parent taxon
- Gecarcinidae
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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.
== Species == The genus Tuerkayana comprises the following species:
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