''Hepatus'' is a genus of
crab
Crabs are decapod crustaceans of the infraorder Brachyura, which typically have a very short projecting "tail" (abdomen) ( el, βραχύς , translit=brachys = short, / = tail), usually hidden entirely under the thorax. They live in all the ...
s in the family
Aethridae, containing seven extant species, plus some fossil species:
* ''
Hepatus chiliensis''
H. Milne-Edwards, 1837
* ''
Hepatus epheliticus
''Hepatus epheliticus'', known by various names, including the calico crab (not to be confused with ''Ovalipes ocellatus'') and Dolly Varden crab, is a species of crab. It lives in shallow water in the western Atlantic Ocean from the Chesapeake ...
''
(Linnaeus, 1763)
* ''
Hepatus gronovii''
Holthuis, 1959
* ''
Hepatus kossmanni''
Neumann, 1878
* ''
Hepatus lineatus''
Rathbun, 1898
* ''
Hepatus pudibundus''
(Herbst, 1785)
* ''
Hepatus scaber''
Holthuis, 1959
Both ''
H. chiliensis'' and ''
H. lineatus'' are also known as fossils.
The other fossil species include:
*''
Hepatus bottomsi''
Blow, 2003
*''
Hepatus lineatus''
Rathbun, 1898
*''
Hepatus nodosus''
Collins & Morris, 1976
*''
Hepatus praecox''
Collins ''et al.'', 1996
*''
Hepatus spinimarginatus''
Feldmann ''et al.'', 2005
References
Crabs
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