Ovalipes
{{Short description|Genus of crabs}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| image = Ovalipes ocellatus (YPM IZ 030799).jpeg
| image_caption = Ovalipes ocellatus
| taxon = Ovalipes
| authority = Rathbun, 1898
| synonyms =
| type_species = Ovalipes ocellatus
| type_species_authority = (Herbst, 1799)
}}
Ovalipes is a genus of crabs in the family Ovalipidae.{{cite journal |last1=Ng |first1=Peter K. L. |author-link=Peter Kee Lin Ng |last2=Guinot |first2=Danièle |author-link2=Danièle Guinot |last3=Davie |first3=Peter J. F. |date=January 2008 |title=Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world |url=https://lkcnhm.nus.edu.sg/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/app/uploads/2017/04/s17rbz.pdf |url-status=live |journal=Raffles Bulletin of Zoology |volume=17 |pages=1–286 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606061453/http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s17/s17rbz.pdf |archive-date=6 June 2011 |access-date=8 June 2011 |via=the National University of Singapore}}{{cite WoRMS|last=De Grave|first=Sammy|date=20 November 2019|title=Ovalipes Rathbun, 1898|id=158433|access-date=29 October 2024}}{{cite book|last1=Poore|first1=Gary C.B.|last2=Ahyong|first2=Shane T.|author-link2=Shane T. Ahyong|title=Marine Decapod Crustacea: A Guide to Families and Genera of the World|publisher=CRC Press|year=2023|isbn=978-1-4863-1178-1|pages=695–696}}
Taxonomy
The genus was first described by Mary J. Rathbun in 1898 and contains the following species:{{citeQ|Q56203834}}
{{Linked species list
| Ovalipes australiensis | Stephenson & Rees, 1968
| Ovalipes catharus | (White, 1843)
| Ovalipes elongatus | Stephenson & Rees, 1968
| Ovalipes floridanus | Hay & Shore, 1918
| † Ovalipes formosanus | Hu & Tao, 1996
| Ovalipes georgei | Stephenson & Rees, 1968
| Ovalipes iridescens | (Miers in Tizard, Moseley, Buchanan & Murray, 1885)
| Ovalipes molleri | (Ward, 1933)
| Ovalipes ocellatus | (Herbst, 1799)
| Ovalipes punctatus | (De Haan, 1833)
| Ovalipes stephensoni | Williams, 1976
| Ovalipes trimaculatus | (De Haan, 1833)
}}
The following cladogram shows the relationship between the extant species of Ovalipes:{{cite journal|last1=Parker|first1=Andrew R.|last2=Mckenzie|first2=David R.|last3=Ahyong|first3=Shane T.|author-link3=Shane T. Ahyong|title=A unique form of light reflector and the evolution of signalling in Ovalipes (Crustacea: Decapoda: Portunidae)|journal=Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences|date=22 May 1998|doi=10.1098/rspb.1998.0371|pmc=1689053}}
{{Ovalipes cladogram}}
References
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{{Authority control}}
Category:Taxa named by Mary J. Rathbun
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