Guam Long-legged Land Crab

Discoplax michalis

Classification

Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Family: Gecarcinidae

Discoplax is a genus of terrestrial crabs. It is very closely related to the genera Cardisoma and Tuerkayana. Discoplax contains the following species: Discoplax gracilipes Ng & Guinot, 2001 Discoplax longipes A.

Distribution

Guam Long-legged Land Crab — (c) Daniel Eisenhauer, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Daniel Eisenhauer · CC-BY

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

United States of America · 10

Sources and credits

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