Tuerkayana

Tuerkayana is a genus of large land crabs. It was created from two members of the genus Cardisoma and two members of Discoplax in late 2018 after a re-examination of the taxonomy of the family Gecarcinidae. Said re-examination also resulted in the creation of the new family Leptograpsodidae for the genus Leptograpsodes.^[1]

Tuerkayana
Tuerkayana rotundum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Suborder:	Pleocyemata
Infraorder:	Brachyura
Family:	Gecarcinidae
Genus:	Tuerkayana
Type species
Tuerkayana rotundum (Quay & Gaimard, 1824)

Species

The genus Tuerkayana comprises the following species:^[1][2]

• Tuerkayana celeste (Ng & Guinot, 2001)
• Tuerkayana hirtipes (Dana, 1851)
• Tuerkayana latens Ng & Shih, 2023
• Tuerkayana magnum (Ng & Shih, 2015)
• Tuerkayana rotundum (Quay & Gaimard, 1824)