Hymenosomatidae

Family of crabs

Hymenosomatidae
Amarinus lacustris
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Brachyura
Subsection: Heterotremata
Superfamily: Hymenosomatoidea
Family: Hymenosomatidae
Macleay, 1838
Genera

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Hymenosomatidae is a family of crabs with some 110 described species in 24 genera.[1][2] The following genera are placed in the Hymenosomatidae:[3]

  • Amarinus
  • Apechocinus
  • Cancrocaeca
  • Crustaenia
  • Culexisoma
  • Elamena
  • Elamenopsis
  • Guaplax
  • Halicarcinides
  • Halicarcinus
  • Halimena
  • Hymenicoides
  • Hymenosoma
  • Limnopilos
  • Lucascinus
  • Micas
  • Neohymenicus
  • Neorhynchoplax
  • Nasutoplax
  • Odiomaris
  • Rhynchoplax
  • Stimpsoplax
  • Sulaplax
  • Trigonoplax

References

  1. ^ Tohru Naruse; Peter K. L. Ng; Daniele Guinot (2008). "Two new genera and two new species of troglobitic false spider crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Hymenosomatidae) from Indonesia, with notes on Cancrocaeca Ng, 1991" (PDF). Zootaxa. 1739: 21–40.
  2. ^ Poore, G.C.B.; Guinot, D.; Komai, T.; Naruse, T. (2016). "Reappraisal of species attributed to Halicarcinus White, 1846 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Hymenosomatidae) with diagnosis of four new genera and one new species from New Ireland, Papua New Guinea". Zootaxa. 4093: 480–514. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4093.4.2.
  3. ^ 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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Taxon identifiers
Hymenosomatidae
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