Gecarcinidae MacLeay 1838

Gecarcinidae, vulgo tantum cancri terrestres saepe appellatae, sunt familia verorum Brachyurorum quae pro vita terrestri accommodantur. Cancri terrestres, omnium aliorum cancrorum similes, series branchiarum habent. Accedit quod pars carapacis branchias tegens inflata est, vasis sanguinis praedita, organis quae oxygenium ex aere extrahunt, sicut vertebratorum pulmones. Adulti cancri terrestres, quamquam animalia terrestria, mare interdum visitant, ubi pariunt et earum larvae crescunt. Cancri terrestres sunt omnivora tropica, multum detrimentum plantarum aliquando efficientes. Unum plurimorum cancrorum terrestrium bracchium alio est maius.

Familia haec genera amplectitur^[1]:

• Cardisoma
• Discoplax
• Epigrapsus
• Gecarcinus
• Gecarcoidea
• Johngarthia

Nexus interni

• Coenobitidae, paguroidea terrestria
• Sesarmidae, alia cancrorum terrestrium familia

Notae

Bibliographia

• Bright, D., et C. Hogue. 1972. A synopsis of burrowing land crabs of the World and list of their arthropod symbionts and burrow associates. Contributions in Science 220. Available online (PDF).
• Ng, P., et D. Guinot. 2001. On the land crabs of the genus Discoplax A. Milne Edwards, 1867 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Gecarcinidae), with description of a new cavernicolous species from the Philippines. Raffles Bull. Zool. 49:311-338.
• Türkay, M. 1970. Die Gercarcinidae Amerikas. Mit einem Anhang uber Ucides Rathbun (Crustacea: Decapoda). Senckenberg. Biol. 51:333-354.
• Türkay, M. 1987. Landkrabben. Natur Mus. 117:143-150.

Nexus externi