Hepatus

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Kingdom Animalia Subphylum Crustacea Order Decapoda		Phylum Arthropoda Class Malacostraca Infraorder Brachyura

Hepatus is a genus of crabs in the family Aethridae, containing seven extant species, plus some fossil species:

Hepatus chiliensis H. Milne-Edwards, 1837

Hepatus epheliticus (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

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