Hemigrapsus crenulatus
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| Hemigrapsus crenulatus | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Crustacea |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Infraorder: | Brachyura |
| Family: | Varunidae |
| Genus: | Hemigrapsus |
| Species: | H. crenulatus |
| Binomial name | |
| Hemigrapsus crenulatus (H. Milne-Edwards, 1837) |
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Hemigrapsus crenulatus, the hairy-handed crab or papaka huruhuru,[2] is a marine crab of the family Varunidae, endemic to the New Zealand coast, although a taxon in Chile may be conspecific.[2]
[edit] References
- ^ 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". Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 17: 1–286. http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s17/s17rbz.pdf.
- ^ a b "Hemigrapsus crenulatis [sic] (H Milne Edwards, 1837), hairy-handed crab, papaka huruhuru". Seafriends. http://www.seafriends.org.nz/enviro/crust/grapsida.htm#Hemigrapsus_crenulatis. Retrieved October 22, 2010.
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