Ixa

Ixa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Brachyura
Family: Leucosiidae
Genus: Ixa
Leach, 1816[1]
Type species
Cancer cylindrus
(Fabricius, 1777)

Ixa is a genus of Indo-Pacific pebble crabs from the family Leucosiidae. The genus was erected by William Elford Leach in 1816.[1] One species, the Red Sea pebble crab (Ixa monodi), is a Lessepsian migrant and the species was first described to science from specimens collected on the Mediterranean Sea although the species is native to the Red Sea and had colonised the eastern Mediterranean through the Suez Canal.[2]

Species

The species classified under Ixa are set out below:[1]

  • Ixa acuta (Tyndale-Biscoe & George, 1962)
  • Ixa cylindrus (Fabricius, 1777)
  • Ixa edwardsii (H. Lucas, 1858)
  • Ixa holthuisi (Tirmizi, 1970)
  • Ixa inermis (Leach, 1817)
  • Ixa investigatoris (Chopra, 1933)
  • Ixa monodi (Holthuis & Gottlieb, 1956)
  • Ixa profundus (Zarenkov, 1994)
  • Ixa pulcherrima (Haswell, 1879)

References

  1. ^ a b c Davie, P. & Türkay, M. (2017). "Ixa Leach, 1816". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 16 March 2017.
  2. ^ Holthuis, L. & Gottlieb, E. (1956). "Two Interesting Crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) from Mersin Bay, S.E. Turkey". Zoologische Mededelingen. 34 (21): 287–299.

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