Hairy stone crab | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Order: | Decapoda |
Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
Infraorder: | Anomura |
Superfamily: |
Lomisoidea Bouvier, 1895 |
Family: |
Lomisidae Bouvier, 1895 [Note 1] |
Genus: |
Lomis H. Milne Edwards, 1837 |
Species: | L. hirta
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Binomial name | |
Lomis hirta (
Lamarck, 1818)
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The hairy stone crab (Lomis hirta) is a crab-like anomuran crustacean that lives in the littoral zone of southern Australia from Bunbury, Western Australia, to the Bass Strait. [2] It is the only species in the family Lomisidae. It is 1.5–2.5 cm (0.6–1.0 in) wide, [2] slow-moving, and covered in brown hair which camouflages it against the rocks upon which it lives. [3]
Some controversy exists about the relationship between L. hirta and the other anomuran families. Candidates for its closest relatives have included hermit crabs, [4] specifically king crabs, [5] and Aegla. [6] [7] It is clear, however, that Lomis represents a separate case of carcinisation. [8]
Hairy stone crab | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Order: | Decapoda |
Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
Infraorder: | Anomura |
Superfamily: |
Lomisoidea Bouvier, 1895 |
Family: |
Lomisidae Bouvier, 1895 [Note 1] |
Genus: |
Lomis H. Milne Edwards, 1837 |
Species: | L. hirta
|
Binomial name | |
Lomis hirta (
Lamarck, 1818)
|
The hairy stone crab (Lomis hirta) is a crab-like anomuran crustacean that lives in the littoral zone of southern Australia from Bunbury, Western Australia, to the Bass Strait. [2] It is the only species in the family Lomisidae. It is 1.5–2.5 cm (0.6–1.0 in) wide, [2] slow-moving, and covered in brown hair which camouflages it against the rocks upon which it lives. [3]
Some controversy exists about the relationship between L. hirta and the other anomuran families. Candidates for its closest relatives have included hermit crabs, [4] specifically king crabs, [5] and Aegla. [6] [7] It is clear, however, that Lomis represents a separate case of carcinisation. [8]