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Discoplax

E Vicipaedia

Subphylum : Crustacea 
Classis : Malacostraca 
Ordo : Decapoda 
Infraordo : Brachyura 
Superfamilia : Grapsoidea 
Familia : Gecarcinidae 
Genus : Discoplax 
A. Milne-Edwards, 1867

Discoplax est genus Brachyurorum terrestrium familiae Gecarcinidarum,[1] quod ad genus Cardisoma arte conectitur.[2]

Quattuor species hodie agnoscuntur[2]:

  1. D. Bright & C. Hogue (1972) (PDF). A synopsis of burrowing land crabs of the World and list of their arthropod symbionts and burrow associates. Contributions in Science. No. 220
  2. 1 2 Peter K. L. Ng, Danièle Guinot, et Peter J. F. Davie (2008), "Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world," Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 17:1–286. PDF.