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Ixa
| Description | Ixa is a genus of Indo-Pacific pebble crabs from the family Leucosiidae , One species, the Red Sea pebble crab Ixa monodi, is a Lessepsian migrant and the species was first described to science from specimens collected on the Mediterranean Sea although the species is native to the Red Sea and had colonised the eastern Mediterranean through the Suez Canal. From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ixa, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Rank | genus | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Malacostraca : Decapoda : Leucosiidae : Ixa | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Scientific Name | Ixa Leach, 1815 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Name Published In | Leach, William E. 1815. A tabular view of the external characters of four classes of animals, which Linné arranged under Insecta; with the distribution of the genera composing three of these classes into orders, &c. and descriptions of several new genera and species. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 11(31): 306-400. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Status (PBDB) | extant | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxon Size (PBDB) | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Extant Size (PBDB) | 2 (100%) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Motility | actively mobile (based on Malacostraca) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Vision | well-developed (based on Malacostraca) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Diet | carnivore (based on Decapoda) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taphonomy | chitin (based on Malacostraca) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Primary Reference (PBDB) | J. J. Sepkoski, Jr. 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363:1-560 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ixa |
Subtaxa
| Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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| Ixa acuta species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Ixa cylindrus species | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 0 Ma Extant | |||
| Ixa edwardsii species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Ixa holthuisi species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Ixa inermis species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Ixa investigatoris species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Ixa monodi species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Ixa profundus species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Ixa pulcherrima species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
Obsolete Names
| Name | Source | Taxon Rank | Taxonomy |
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| Acribes Gistl, 1848 | GBIF | genus | Animalia : Arthropoda : Malacostraca : Decapoda : Leucosiidae : Acribes |
Synonymy List
| Year | Name and Author |
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| 1816 | Ixa Leach |
| 2002 | Ixa Sepkoski, Jr. |
| 2010 | Ixa Schweitzer et al. |
| 2017 | Ixa Luque et al. p. 17 |
References
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
