Forestia (genus)

Forestia
Forestia depressa
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Suborder:	Pleocyemata
Infraorder:	Brachyura
Family:	Xanthidae
Genus:	Forestia Guinot, 1976

Forestia is a genus of crabs in the family Xanthidae, containing the following species:[1]

• Forestia abrolhensis (Montgomery, 1931)
• Forestia depressa (White, 1848)
• Forestia pascua Garth, 1985
• Forestia scabra (Odhner, 1925)

The name Forestia commemorates the French carcinologist Jacques Forest.[2]

References

1. Ng, Peter K. L.; Guinot, Danièle; Davie, Peter J. F. (January 2008). "Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 17: 1–286. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2011-06-06. Retrieved 2011-06-08 – via the National University of Singapore.
2. Hans G. Hansson. "Prof. Jacques Forest". Biographical Etymology of Marine Organism Names. Göteborgs Universitet. Archived from the original on February 25, 2021. Retrieved November 4, 2012.