Menippe (crab)

Menippe
Menippe mercenaria
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Suborder:	Pleocyemata
Infraorder:	Brachyura
Family:	Menippidae
Genus:	Menippe De Haan, 1833
Type species
Menippe rumphii (Fabricius, 1798)

Menippe is a genus of true crabs.^[1] One of the best known species is the Florida stone crab. Most of the species of this genus are found in the Atlantic Ocean.

Species

Menippe contains the following species:^[2]

• Menippe adina Williams & Felder, 1986
• †Menippe brevimanus Rathbun, 1945
• †Menippe burnsi Rathbun, 1935
• †Menippe cretacea Rathbun, 1935
• †Menippe floridana Rathbun, 1935
• †Menippe frescoensis Remy, 1960
• Menippe frontalis A. Milne-Edwards, 1879
• Menippe hirtipes (Lucas in Jacquinot & Lucas, 1853)
• †Menippe jacksonensis Rathbun, 1935
• Menippe mercenaria (Say, 1818)
• Menippe nodifrons Stimpson, 1859
• Menippe obtusa Stimpson, 1859
• †Menippe oceanica Rathbun, 1945
• Menippe rumphii (Fabricius, 1798)
• †Menippe zoque (Vega, Feldmann, García-Barrera, Filkorn, Pimentel & Avendano, 2001)

References

1. P. K. L. Ng, D. Guinot & P. J. F. Davie (2008). "Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 17: 1–286. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-06.
2. De Grave, Sammy (15 December 2022). "Menippe De Haan, 1833". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 30 November 2024.