Discoplax

{{Short description|Genus of crabs}}

{{Automatic Taxobox

| image = Discoplax longipes.jpg

| image_caption = Discoplax longipes

| taxon = Discoplax

| authority = A. Milne-Edwards, 1867

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Discoplax is a genus of terrestrial crabs.{{cite book |author=D. Bright |author2=C. Hogue |name-list-style=amp |year=1972 |title=A synopsis of burrowing land crabs of the World and list of their arthropod symbionts and burrow associates |series=Contributions in Science. No. 220 |url=http://www.mosquitocatalog.org/files/pdfs/013600-0.pdf |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101009030017/http://www.mosquitocatalog.org/files/pdfs/013600-0.pdf |archivedate=2010-10-09 }} It is very closely related to the genera Cardisoma{{cite journal|last1=Ng|first1=Peter K. L.|author-link2=Danièle Guinot|last2=Guinot|first2=Danièle|last3=Davie|first3=Peter J. F.|date=2008-01-31|title=Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world|url=https://decapoda.nhm.org/pdfs/27562/27562.pdf|url-status=live|journal=The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology|volume=17|pages=1–286|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606061453/http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s17/s17rbz.pdf|archivedate=2011-06-06|via=the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County|name-list-style=amp}} and Tuerkayana.{{cite journal|last1=Guinot|first1=Danièle|author-link=Danièle Guinot|last2=Ng|first2=Ngan Kee|last3=Rodríguez Moreno|first3=Paula A.|date=21 December 2018|title=Review of grapsoid families for the establishment of a new family for Leptograpsodes Montgomery, 1931, and a new genus of Gecarcinidae H. Milne Edwards, 1837 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Grapsoidea MacLeay, 1838)|url=https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/sites/default/files/articles/pdf/zoosystema2018v40a26.pdf|url-status=dead|volume=40|issue=sp1|pages=547–604|doi=10.5252/zoosystema2018v40a26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190214163349/https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/sites/default/files/articles/pdf/zoosystema2018v40a26.pdf|archive-date=14 February 2019|journal=Zoosystema|s2cid=92671389 }}

Discoplax contains the following species:{{cite journal |author=Peter K. L. Ng |author2=Peter J. F. Davie |name-list-style=amp |year=2012 |title=The blue crab of Christmas Island, Discoplax celeste, new species (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Gecarcinidae) |journal=Raffles Bulletin of Zoology |volume=60 |issue=1 |pages=89–100 |url=http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/60/60rbz089-100.pdf }}{{cite journal |author=Peter K. L. Ng |author2=Hsi-Tse Shih |name-list-style=amp |year=2015 |title=The land crabs of the Discoplax longipes A. Milne-Edwards, 1867 species group, with description of a new species from Guam (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Gecarcinidae) |journal=Zootaxa |volume=3980 |issue=3 |pages=379–405 |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.3980.3.3|pmid=26249959 }}{{cite WoRMS|last=De Grave|first=Sammy|date=5 September 2020|title=Discoplax A. Milne-Edwards, 1867|id=439336|access-date=13 March 2025}}

{{Linked species list

| Discoplax gracilipes | Ng & Guinot, 2001

| Discoplax longipes | A. Milne-Edwards, 1867

| Discoplax michalis | Ng & Shih, 2015

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