Dromia

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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". 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. 


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