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Hexapus is a genus of crabs in the family Hexapodidae. It contains only three extant species found in the Indo-West Pacific. They inhabit the intertidal and subtidal areas of shorelines.

Description

Шаблон:Main Like other members of the family, these crabs are easily recognizable due to the complete absence of the last pair of walking legs (pereiopods). They thus only have six walking legs (excluding the claws), unlike the usual eight. Their carapace is subquadrate, wider than it is long, with a rounded anterior.[1]

Species

The following are the species classified under Hexapus.[1]

Species marked with Шаблон:Extinct are extinct

Extant species

Found in Goa, India[2]
Found from Cochin, southwest India to Phuket, Thailand and the Penang Strait of Malaysia
Found in Timika, Papua, Indonesia

Fossil species

Originally described as Prepaeduma decapoda. From Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia (Miri Formation, Pliocene)[3]
From Bolbe, Davao City, Philippines (Mandug Formation, early Pleistocene)[4]
From the Jōban Coal Field of Iwaki, Fukushima, Japan (Nakayama Formation, Miocene)[5]
From the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa of Pakistan (Kirthar Formation, Lutetian)[6]

Excluded species

Hexapus estuarinus is now regarded as a junior synonym of Hexapus sexpes. In addition, the following the species has been transferred to other genera:[1][7][8]

References

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