Metopaulias
Subphylum : Crustacea
Classis : Malacostraca
Ordo : Decapoda
Infraordo : Brachyura
Superfamilia : Grapsoidea
Familia : Sesarmidae
Genus : Metopaulias
Rathbun, 1896 [1]
Species : M. depressus
Classis : Malacostraca
Ordo : Decapoda
Infraordo : Brachyura
Superfamilia : Grapsoidea
Familia : Sesarmidae
Genus : Metopaulias
Rathbun, 1896 [1]
Species : M. depressus
Metapaulias depressus
Rathbun, 1896 [1]
Rathbun, 1896 [1]
Metopaulias est monotypicum genus Sesarmidarum omnino terrestrium, quae ad mare ad ova gignenda redire non debent. Metopaulias depressus est cancer rutilo-fuscus circa 2 centimetra latus, qui in stagnis aquae in foliis bromeliacearum Iamaicae convenientis habitat. Femina circa nonaginta ova parit, tum, progenies curans, folia delapsa quae aquam deoxygenare solent removet, testas gastropodorum in stagnum ad requisitum calcium suppeditandum addit, blattaria et diplopoda ut vescantur capit, et larvas Diceratobasis macrogastri interficit, quae eos aliter comederent.[2]
Notae
[recensere | fontem recensere]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 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.
- ↑ Olivia Judson, "Pineapple Dreams," The New York Times, 18 Martii 2008.