Stalk-eyed mud crab

The stalk-eyed mud crab, Macrophthalmus hirtipes, is a marine large-eyed crab of the family Macrophthalmidae, endemic to New Zealand including Campbell Island.[2] It grows to around 30 millimetres (1.2 in) shell width.[2] It is either the only species in the subgenus Hemiplax[3] and the most basal species in the genus Macrophthalmus, or the only species in the sister genus Hemiplax.[4]

Stalk-eyed mud crab
Stalk-eyed mud crab at Manukau Harbour in Auckland
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Subphylum:
Crustacea
Class:
Malacostraca
Order:
Decapoda
Infraorder:
Brachyura
Family:
Macrophthalmidae
Genus:
Macrophthalmus
Subgenus:
Hemiplax

Heller, 1865
Species:
M. hirtipes
Binomial name
Macrophthalmus hirtipes
(Jacquinot in Hombron & Jacquinot, 1846)
Synonyms [1]
  • Cleistostoma hirtipes (Hombron & Jacquinot, 1846)
  • Macrophthalmus (Hemiplax) hirtipes (Hombron & Jacquinot, 1846)
  • Metaplax hirtipes Heller, 1865

References
  1. Peter Davie (2011). "Hemiplax hirtipes Heller, 1865". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved November 20, 2011.
  2. C. L. McLay (1988). "Brachyura and crab-like Anomura of New Zealand". Leigh Laboratory Bulletin. University of Auckland. 22: 1–463.
  3. 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.
  4. Colin L. McLay, Jun Kitaura & Kaiji Wada (2010). "Behavioural and molecular evidence for the systematic position of Macrophthalmus (Hemiplax) hirtipes Hombron & Jacquinot, 1846, with comments on macrophthalmine subgenera (Decapoda, Brachyura, Macrophthalmidae)". In Charles Fransen, Sammy de Grave and Peter Ng (ed.). Studies on Malacostraca: Lipke Bijdeley Holthuis Memorial Volume (PDF). Crustaceana Monographs. 14. pp. 483–503. ISBN 978-90-04-17429-0.
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