Tuerkayana is a genus of large land crabs. It was created from two members of the genus Cardisoma and two members of Discoplax in late 2018 after a re-examination of the taxonomy of the family Gecarcinidae. Said re-examination also resulted in the creation of the new family Leptograpsodidae for the genus Leptograpsodes.[1]
Species
The genus Tuerkayana comprises the following species:[1][2]
- Tuerkayana celeste (Ng & Guinot, 2001)
- Tuerkayana hirtipes (Dana, 1851)
- Tuerkayana latens Ng & Shih, 2023
- Tuerkayana magnum (Ng & Shih, 2015)
- Tuerkayana rotundum (Quay & Gaimard, 1824)
References
- ^ a b Guinot, Danièle; Ng, Ngan Kee; Rodríguez Moreno, Paula A. (21 December 2018). "Review of grapsoid families for the establishment of a new family for Leptograpsodes Montgomery, 1931, and a new genus of Gecarcinidae H. Milne Edwards, 1837 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Grapsoidea MacLeay, 1838)" (PDF). Zoosystema. 40 (sp1): 547–604. doi:10.5252/zoosystema2018v40a26. S2CID 92671389. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 February 2019.
- ^ De Grave, Sammy (23 September 2022). "Tuerkayana Guinot, Ng & Rodriguez Moreno, 2018". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 13 March 2025.
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