Grapsoidea
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 Purple shore crab (Hemigrapsus nudus: Grapsidae)
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Grapsoidea is a superfamily of crabs. They contain many taxa which are terrestrial (land-living), semi-terrestrial (taking to the sea only for reproduction) or limnic (living in freshwater). Another well-known member with a more conventional lifestyle is the Chinese Mitten Crab, Eriocheir sinensis.
The delimitation of the Grapsidae and Plagusiidae is in need of revision; the last at least is not monophyletic. The same apparently holds true for several genera in the Sesarmidae.[1]
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ Schubart et al. (2002, 2003, 2006)
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- Schubart, Christoph D.; Cuesta, José A. & Felder, D.L. (2002): Glyptograpsidae, a new brachyuran family from Central America: larval and adult morphology, and a molecular phylogeny of the Grapsoidea. J.Crustacean Biol. 22(1): 28-44. DOI:10.1651/0278-0372(2002)022[0028:GANBFF]2.0.CO;2 HTML abstract
- Schubart, Christoph D.; Liu, Hung-Chang & Cuesta, José A. (2003): A new genus and species of tree-climbing crab (Crustacea: Brachyura: Sesarmidae) from Taiwan with notes on its ecology and larval morphology. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 51(1): 49-59. PDF fulltext
- Schubart, Christoph D.; Cannicci, S.; Vannini, M. & Fratini, S. (2006): Molecular phylogeny of grapsoid crabs (Decapoda, Brachyura) and allies based on two mitochondrial genes and a proposal for refraining from current superfamily classification. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 44(3): 193–199. doi:10.1111/j.1439-0469.2006.00354.x (HTML abstract)
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