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Maja (crab)

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Maja is a genus of majid crabs erected by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck in 1801. It includes the following extant species:^[1]

A further 12 species are known from fossils.^[2]

^ Peter K. L. Ng; Danièle Guinot & Peter J. F. Davie (2008). "Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 17: 1–286. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-06.
^ Sammy De Grave; N. Dean Pentcheff; Shane T. Ahyong; et al. (2009). "A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. Suppl. 21: 1–109. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-06.

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Maja is a genus of majid crabs erected by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck in 1801. It includes the following extant species:

Maja africana Griffin & Tranter, 1996 Maja bisarmata Rathbun, 1916 Maja brachydactyla Balss, 1922 Maja capensis Ortmann, 1894 Maja compressipes (Miers, 1879) Maja confragosa Griffin & Tranter, 1996 Maja crispata Risso, 1827 Maja erinacea de Ninni, 1924 Maja gibba Alcock, 1899 Maja goltziana d'Oliviera, 1888 Maja gracilipes Chen & Ng, 1999 Maja japonica Rathbun, 1932 Maja kominatoensis Kubo, 1936 Maja linapacanensis Rathbun, 1916 Maja miersii Walker, 1887 Maja sakaii Takeda & Miyake, 1969 Maja spinigera (De Haan, 1837) Maja squinado (Herbst, 1788) Maja suluensis Rathbun, 1916 Maja tuberculata De Haan, 1839

A further 12 species are known from fossils.