Forestia

Forestia is a genus of crabs in the family Xanthidae, containing the following species:[1]

  • Forestia abrolhensis (Montgomery, 1931)
  • Forestia depressa (White, 1848)
  • Forestia pascua Garth, 1985
  • Forestia scabra (Odhner, 1925)

Forestia
Forestia depressa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Subphylum:
Crustacea
Class:
Malacostraca
Order:
Decapoda
Infraorder:
Brachyura
Family:
Xanthidae
Genus:
Forestia

Guinot, 1976

The name Forestia commemorates the French carcinologist Jacques Forest.[2]

References
  1. 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. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-06.
  2. Hans G. Hansson. "Prof. Jacques Forest". Biographical Etymology of Marine Organism Names. Göteborgs Universitet. Retrieved November 4, 2012.


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