Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Eucarida > Order Decapoda > Suborder Pleocyemata > Infraorder Brachyura > Section Eubrachyura > Subsection Heterotremata > Superfamily Portunoidea > Family Polybiidae

Macropipus Prestandrea, 1833

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

Elliptodactylus Doflein, 1904 synonym

Children

Macropipus rugosus (Doflein, 1904)
Macropipus tuberculatus (Roux, 1830)

Literature

original description

Prestandrea, N. (1833). Su di alcuni nuovi crustacei dei mari di Messina. [On some new crustaceans from the seas of Messina]. Effemeridi Scientifiche e Letterarie per La Sicilia. 6: 3-14.

basis of record

Türkay, M. (2001). Decapoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 284-292

additional source

Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp.

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Citation

DecaNet eds. (2025). DecaNet. Macropipus Prestandrea, 1833. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:106926

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Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


marine, not brackish, not fresh, not terrestrial

Importance

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Last modified

2023-01-02 by Christopher B. Boyko

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