Plagusia squamosa

Plagusia squamosa is a marine crab of the family Plagusiidae, formerly considered a subspecies of Plagusia depressa (as P. d. tuberculata).[1] It is found in tropical Indo-Pacific oceans. P. squamosa's carapace is bumpy and quite coarse, seemingly scaly, leading to its common name: The Scaly Rock Crab.

Plagusia squamosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Subphylum:
Crustacea
Class:
Malacostraca
Order:
Decapoda
Infraorder:
Brachyura
Family:
Plagusiidae
Genus:
Plagusia
Species:
P. squamosa
Binomial name
Plagusia squamosa
(Herbst, 1790)
Synonyms [1]
  • Cancer squamosus Herbst, 1790
  • Grapse tuberculatus Latreille, 1812
  • Plagusia tuberculata Latreille, 1818
  • Plagusia orientalis Stimpson, 1858

References
  1. Peter K. L. Ng; Danièle Guinot & Peter 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.


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