Myra fugax
Myra fugax. Museum specimen
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Suborder:	Pleocyemata
Infraorder:	Brachyura
Family:	Leucosiidae
Genus:	Myra
Species:	M. fugax
Binomial name
Myra fugax (Fabricius, 1798)
Synonyms
Cancer punctatus Herbst, 1783 Leucosia fugax Fabricius, 1798 Leucosia fugax Weber, 1795 Myra carinata Bell, 1855 Myra carinata White, 1847 Myra longimerus Chen & Türkay, 2001 Myra pentacantha Alcock, 1896

Myra fugax is a species of crab in the family Leucosiidae.^[1]

Myra fugax can reach a size of 140 millimetres (5.5 in). Carapace is rounded, globose, with a finely granulate dorsal surface. Chelipeds and legs are long and slender. The color varies from pale pink to pale yellow.^[2]

The barnacles of the species Sacculina captiva are parasitic castrators of these crabs.^[3]

This species is present in the Pacific Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea, the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean. It is common along the coast of New Caledonia, Israel, South Africa, Egypt, Vietnam, Mozambique, Sri Lanka, India, Mauritius and Fiji.^[3]

This species is typical of sandy substrates, at depths of 9 to 50 m.^[2]

• B.S. Galil, A revision of Myra Leach, 1817 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Leucosioidea) (PDF), in Zool. Med, vol. 75, nº 24, Leiden, pp. 409–446, ISSN 0024-0672.
• P. J. F. Davie, Zoological Catalogue of Australia, CSIRO publishing & Australian Biological Resources Study.
• Rupert Riedl, Fauna e flora del Mediterraneo, Franco Muzzio editore, 1983, ISBN 978-88-7413-224-9.
• Türkay, M. (2001). Decapoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 284–292

• Crustaceology
• Leechitse