Discoplax


Animalia — Arthropoda
Subphylum : Crustacea 
Classis : Malacostraca 
Ordo : Decapoda 
Infraordo : Brachyura 
Superfamilia : Grapsoidea 
Familia : Gecarcinidae 
Genus : Discoplax 
A. Milne-Edwards, 1867
   

Discoplax est genus Brachyurorum terrestrium familiae Gecarcinidarum,[1] quod ad genus Cardisoma arte conectitur.[2]

Quattuor species hodie agnoscuntur[2]:

  1. D. Bright & C. Hogue (1972) (PDF). A synopsis of burrowing land crabs of the World and list of their arthropod symbionts and burrow associates. Contributions in Science. No. 220 
  2. 2.0 2.1 Peter K. L. Ng, Danièle Guinot, et Peter J. F. Davie (2008), "Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world," Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 17:1–286. PDF.