Hexagonalia

PETER CASTRO, PETER K. L. NG & SHANE T. AHYONG, 2004, Phylogeny and systematics of the Trapeziidae Miers, 1886 (Crustacea: Brachyura), with the description of a new family, Zootaxa 643, pp. 1-70 : 57

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.158851
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5675133
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scientific name	Hexagonalia
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Species of Hexagonalia View in CoL

1. Hexagonalia brucei ( Serène, 1973) (as Quadrella brucei ) [type locality off Kenya; geographical distribution: western Indian Ocean] (Plate 4B)

2. Hexagonalia laboutei Galil, 1997 [known only from the type locality, Tuamotu Archipelago, French Polynesia]

A third species is being described from the Solomon Islands (Castro, in press).

References

Galil, B. (1997) A new Hexagonalia (Brachyura, Xanthoidea, Trapeziidae), obligate commensal on Stylasteridae. Zoosystema, 19 (2 / 3), 449 - 452.

Serene, R. (1973) Observations sur les especes des genres Quadrella Dana 1851 et Sphenomerides Rathbun 1898 (Decapoda-Brachyura). Bulletin de la Societe Zoologique de France, 98, 191 - 209.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Malacostraca
Order	Decapoda
InfraOrder	Brachyura
Family	Trapeziidae

Specimens