Australian Museum Journal Georgeoplax, new genus for Litocheira glabra Baker, 1906 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura)
- Shortform:
- Türkay, 1984, Aust. Mus. Mem. 18(8): 101–105
- Author(s):
- Türkay, Michael
- Year published:
- 1984
- Title:
- Georgeoplax, new genus for Litocheira glabra Baker, 1906 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura)
- Serial title:
- Australian Museum Memoir
- Volume:
- 18
- Issue:
- 8
- Start page:
- 101
- End page:
- 105
- DOI:
- 10.3853/j.0067-1967.18.1984.375
- Language:
- English
- Date published:
- 31 March 1984
- Cover date:
- 31 December 1983
- ISSN:
- 0067-1967
- CODEN:
- AUNMA5
- Publisher:
- The Australian Museum
- Place published:
- Sydney, Australia
- Subjects:
- CRUSTACEA: BRACHYURA; TAXONOMY
- Digitized:
- 09 September 2009
- Reference number:
- 375
- EndNote package:
- EndNote file
- Title page:
- Title page (101kb PDF)
- Complete work:
- Complete work (1157kb PDF)
Abstract
Georgeoplax new genus is proposed for Litocheira glabra Baker, 1906, as the shape of the male first pleopod is different from that of Litocheira bispinosa Kinahan, 1856. Both genera share the primitively catometopan configuration of the male reproductive system with coxal genital openings and the penis situated in a groove between the seventh and eighth sternites, as well as the general torsion of the basal part of the first male pleopod as shown by the direction of the sperm channel. For these reasons both genera are monotypic.