Hyastenus

{{Short description|Genus of crabs}}

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{{Automatic Taxobox

| name = Hyastenus

| image = Hyastenus bispinosus (Arrow crab) on Aglaophenia cupressina (Stinging hydroid).jpg

| image_upright= 0.8

| image_caption = H. bispinosus on the hydroid Aglaophenia cupressina

| taxon = Hyastenus

| authority = White, 1847

| type_species = Hyastenus sebae

| type_species_authority = White, 1847

}}

Hyastenus is a genus of crabs in the family Epialtidae, subfamily Pisinae, containing the following extant species:{{cite WoRMS |author=Peter Davie & Michael Türkay |year=2012 |title=Hyastenus White, 1847 |id=106904 |accessdate=May 17, 2012}}

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• Hyastenus ambonensis Griffin & Tranter, 1986
• Hyastenus aries (Latreille, 1825)
• Hyastenus auctus Rathbun, 1916
• Hyastenus biformis Rathbun, 1916
• Hyastenus bispinosus Buitendijk, 1939
• Hyastenus borradailei (Rathbun, 1907)
• Hyastenus brachychirus Nobili, 1899
• Hyastenus brevicornis Ortmann, 1894
• Hyastenus brockii de Man, 1887
• Hyastenus campbelli Griffin & Tranter, 1986
• Hyastenus consobrinus A. Milne-Edwards, 1895
• Hyastenus convexus Miers, 1884
• Hyastenus cornigerus Sakai, 1938
• Hyastenus cracentis Griffin & Tranter, 1986
• Hyastenus diacanthus (De Haan, 1839)
• Hyastenus elatus Griffin & Tranter, 1986
• Hyastenus elongatus Ortmann, 1893
• Hyastenus espinosus (Borradaile, 1903)
• Hyastenus fracterculus Rathbun, 1916
• Hyastenus gracilimanus Yang & Dai, 1994
• Hyastenus hectori Miers, 1879
• Hyastenus hendersoni (Laurie, 1906)
• Hyastenus hilgendorfi de Man, 1887
• Hyastenus inermis (Rathbun, 1911)
• Hyastenus kyusyuensis (Yokoya, 1933)
• Hyastenus mindoro Griffin & Tranter, 1986
• Hyastenus minutus Buitendijk, 1939
• Hyastenus planasius (Adams & White, 1848)
• Hyastenus pleione (Herbst, 1803)
• Hyastenus scrobiculatus Rathbun, 1916
• Hyastenus sebae White, 1847
• Hyastenus sinope (Adams & White, 1848)
• Hyastenus spinosus A. Milne-Edwards, 1872
• Hyastenus subinermis Zehntner, 1894
• Hyastenus ternatensis Buitendijk, 1939
• Hyastenus truncatipes (Miers, 1879)
• Hyastenus uncifer Calman, 1900
• Hyastenus whitei Griffin, 1976

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One further fossil species is known.{{cite journal|journal=Raffles Bulletin of Zoology |year=2009 |volume=Suppl. 21 |pages=1–109 |title=A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans |author1=Sammy De Grave |author2=N. Dean Pentcheff |author3=Shane T. Ahyong |url=http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s21/s21rbz1-109.pdf |display-authors=etal |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606064728/http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s21/s21rbz1-109.pdf |archivedate=2011-06-06 }}