Macrophthalmus japonicus

Animalia — Arthropoda
Subphylum : Crustacea 
Classis : Malacostraca 
Ordo : Decapoda 
Subordo : Pleocyemata 
Infraordo : Brachyura 
Superfamilia : Ocypodoidea 
Familia : Macrophthalmidae 
Genus : Macrophthalmus 
Desmarest, 1823
   
Species typica
Goneplax transversus Latreille, 1817
Macrophthalmus latreillei, Pleistocene, Australia.

Macrophthalmus est genus brachyurorum late trans Indo-Pacificum distributorum.[1] Genus species sequentis in haec subgenera digestas continet[2]:

Subgenus Chaenostoma Stimpson, 1858
Subgenus Euplax H. Milne-Edwards, 1852
Subgenus Hemiplax Heller, 1865
Subgenus Macrophthalmus Desmarest, 1823
Subgenus Mareotis Barnes, 1967
Subgenus Paramareotis Komai, Goshima & Murai, 1995
Subgenus Tasmanoplax Barnes, 1967
Subgenus Venitus Barnes, 1967

Notae

  1. M. A. Pancucci-Papadopoulou, M. Corsini-Foka & M. Naletaki (2010). "Macrophthalmus graeffei A. Milne Edwards, 1873 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Macrophthalmidae): a new Indo-Pacific guest off Rhodes Island (SE Aegean Sea, Greece)" (PDF). Mediterranean Marine Science 11 (1): in press .
  2. Peter K. L. Ng, Danièle Guinot & Peter J. F. Davie (2008). "Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world" (PDF.). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 17: 1–286 

Haec stipula ad crustaceum spectat. Amplifica, si potes!