Animalia > Arthropoda > Malacostraca > Decapoda > Macrophthalmidae > Hemiplax > Hemiplax hirtipes

Hemiplax hirtipes (stalk-eyed mud crab)

Synonyms: Cleistostoma hirtipes; Macrophthalmus hirtipes; Metaplax hirtipes

Wikipedia Abstract

The stalk-eyed mud crab, Macrophthalmus hirtipes, is a marine large-eyed crab of the family Macrophthalmidae, endemic to New Zealand including Campbell Island. It grows to around 30 millimetres (1.2 in) shell width. It is either the only species in the subgenus Hemiplax and the most basal species in the genus Macrophthalmus, or the only species in the sister genus Hemiplax.
View Wikipedia Record: Hemiplax hirtipes

Predators

Mustelus lenticulatus (Gummy shark)[1]
Peltorhamphus novaezeelandiae (Common sole)[2]
Rhombosolea leporina (New Zealand flounder)[2]
Rhombosolea plebeia (Sand flounder)[2]

Providers

Mutual (symbiont) 
Curtuteria australis[1]
Profilicollis antarcticus[1]
Profilicollis novaezelandensis[1]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Profilicollis antarcticus[1]
Profilicollis novaezelandensis[1]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 2Mary E. Livingston (1987) Food resource use among five flatfish species (Pleuronectiformes) in Wellington Harbour, New Zealand, New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 21:2, 281-293
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0