Tuerkayana

Genus of crustaceans

Tuerkayana
Tuerkayana rotundum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Brachyura
Family: Gecarcinidae
Genus: Tuerkayana
Type species
Tuerkayana rotundum
(Quay & Gaimard, 1824)

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:[1]

  • 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)

References

  1. ^ a b Guinot, Danièle; 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)" (PDF). Zoosystema. 40 (sp1): 547–604. doi:10.5252/zoosystema2018v40a26. S2CID 92671389. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 February 2019.

External links

  • Media related to Tuerkayana at Wikimedia Commons
  • Data related to Tuerkayana at Wikispecies
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Extant Gecarcinidae species
Cardisoma
  • C. armatum
  • C. carnifex
  • C. crassum
  • C. guanhumi
Discoplax
  • D. gracilipes
  • D. longipes
  • D. magna
  • D. michalis
  • D. rotunda
Epigrapsus
  • E. notatus
  • E. politus
  • E. villosus
Gecarcinus
  • G. lateralis
  • G. quadratus
  • G. ruricola
  • G. nobilii
Gecarcoidea
  • G. lalandii
  • G. natalis
Johngarthia
  • J. cocoensis
  • J. lagostoma
  • J. malpilensis
  • J. oceanica
  • J. planata
  • J. weileri
Tuerkayana
  • T. celeste
  • T. hirtipes
  • T. magnum
  • T. rotundum
Taxon identifiers
Tuerkayana
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