Scleroplax
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Brachyura |
| Family: | Pinnotheridae |
| Genus: | Scleroplax Rathbun, 1894 |
Scleroplax is a genus of crabs in the family Pinnotheridae.
Species of the genus Scleroplax live as a commensal of various burrowing animals including the mud shrimp Neotrypaea californiensis, N. gigas, Upogebia pugettensis and U. macginiteorum,[1] and the echiuran worm Urechis caupo (known as the "fat innkeeper"),[2] and occurs from Vancouver Island, British Columbia to Punta Abreojos, Mulegé, Baja California Sur, Mexico.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Ernesto Campos (2006). "Systematics of the genus Scleroplax Rathbun, 1893 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Pinnotheridae)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 1344: 33–41. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1344.1.3.
- ^ Stanley J. Edmonds (2000). "Phylum Echiura". In Pamela L. Beesley; Graham J. B. Ross; Christopher J. Glasby (eds.). Polychaetes & Allies: the Southern Synthesis. Fauna of Australia: Polychaeta, Myzostomida, Pogonophora, Echiura, Sipuncula. Vol. 4, pt. 1. CSIRO Publishing. pp. 353–374. ISBN 978-0-643-06571-0.
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