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The marine fauna of New Zealand: Spider crabs, family Majidae (Crustacea, Brachyura)
Griffin, D.J.G. (1966). The marine fauna of New Zealand: Spider crabs, family Majidae (Crustacea, Brachyura). NIWA Biodiversity Memoir, 35. New Zealand Oceanographic Institute: [s.l.]. 9-111 pp.
Part of: New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir. New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research: Wellington. ISSN 0083-7903, more
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Keywords
    New Zealand
    Taxonomic status > New taxa > New species
    Leptomithrax garricki Griffin, 1966 [WoRMS]
    New Zealand [Marine Regions]
    Marine/Coastal
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  • Griffin, D.J.G.
Abstract
    The New Zealand majid spider crab fauna comprises a total of 18 species belonging to 11 genera representing four of the seven subfamilies into which the family Majidae is currently divided. The present report treats 17 species extensively, the material on which it is based (almost 400 specimens collected in New Zealand waters) making up 16 of these. Previous work on the group in New Zealand and the general classification of the group on a world-wide scale are briefly reviewed. Keys to genera and species are provided. [...]
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