Dromia

Genus of crabs

Dromia
Dromia personata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Subphylum:
Crustacea
Class:
Malacostraca
Order:
Decapoda
Infraorder:
Brachyura
Family:
Dromiidae
Genus:
Dromia

Weber, 1795
Type species
Cancer personatus
Linnaeus, 1758

Dromia is a genus of crabs in the family Dromiidae. It contains 6 extant species:[1]

  • Dromia bollorei Forest, 1974
  • Dromia dormia (Linnaeus, 1763)
  • Dromia erythropus (George Edwards, 1771)
  • Dromia marmorea Forest, 1974
  • Dromia nodosa A. Milne-Edwards & Bouvier, 1898
  • Dromia personata (Linnaeus, 1758)

Two further species are known only from fossils.[2]

References

  1. ^ Peter Davie & Michael Türkay (2011). "Dromia Weber, 1795". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved November 28, 2011.
  2. ^ 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.
Taxon identifiers
Dromia


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