WoRMS taxon details
Lophoplax Tesch, 1918
439616 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:439616)
accepted
Genus
Lophoplax bicristata Tesch, 1918 (type by original designation)
- Species Lophoplax bicristata Tesch, 1918
- Species Lophoplax takakurai Sakai, 1935
- Species Lophoplax andamanica (Deb, 1989) accepted as Myopilumnus andamanicus Deb, 1989 (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Lophoplax pannosa Ng & Rahayu, 2023 accepted as Myopilumnus pannosus (Ng & Rahayu, 2023) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Lophoplax sculpta (Stimpson, 1858) accepted as Myopilumnus sculptus (Stimpson, 1858) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Lophoplax sextuberculata Takeda & Kurata, 1984 accepted as Takedaplax sextuberculata (Takeda & Kurata, 1984) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Lophoplax sordida Ng & Rahayu, 2023 accepted as Myopilumnus sordidus (Ng & Rahayu, 2023) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Lophoplax symmetrinuda (Edmondson, 1951) accepted as Hosekia symmetrinuda (Edmondson, 1951) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Lophoplax teschi Serène, 1971 accepted as Cryptolutea teschi (Serène, 1971) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Lophoplax vermiculata (A. Milne- Edwards, 1873) accepted as Myopilumnus vermiculata (A. Milne- Edwards, 1873) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
feminine
Tesch, J.J. (1918). The Decapoda Brachyura of the Siboga-Expedition. II. Goneplacidae and Pinnotheridae. <em>Siboga-Expeditie Monografie.</em> 39c1: 149-295, pls. 7-18. [details] 
DecaNet eds. (2025). DecaNet. Lophoplax Tesch, 1918. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=439616 on 2025-05-18
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Nomenclature
original description
Tesch, J.J. (1918). The Decapoda Brachyura of the Siboga-Expedition. II. Goneplacidae and Pinnotheridae. <em>Siboga-Expeditie Monografie.</em> 39c1: 149-295, pls. 7-18. [details]
Taxonomy
taxonomy source
Poore, G.C.B.; Ahyong, S.T. (2023). Marine decapod Crustacea: a guide to the families and genera of the world. CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood. xii + 916 pp. , available online at https://doi.org/10.1071/9781486311798 [details] Available for editors 
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additional source
Ng, P. K. L. & Ahyong, S. T. (2024). Redefining <i>Lophoplax</i> Tesch, 1918: recognising <i>Myopilumnus</i> Deb, 1989, and the establishment of three new genera, <i>Hosekia</i>, <i>Takedaplax</i>, and <i>Striacoeloma</i> (Crustacea: Brachyura: Pilumnidae). <em>Raffles Bulletin of Zoology.</em> 72: 335–355., available online at https://doi.org/10.26107/RBZ-2024-0027 [details] Available for editors [request]
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Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
| Language | Name | |
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| Japanese | タコガニ属 | [details] |