Palicoidea

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Palicoidea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Infraorder: Brachyura
Section: Eubrachyura
Subsection: Heterotremata
Superfamily: Palicoidea
Bouvier, 1898 [1]
Families

Palicoidea is a superfamily of crabs, comprising the two families Crossotonotidae and Palicidae. Together, they contain 13 genera, including two genera in the Palicidae known only from fossils.[2] The two families were previously treated as two subfamilies in a Palicidae of wider circumscription.[3]

Family Crossotonotidae Moosa & Serène, 1981
  • Crossotonotus A. Milne-Edwards, 1873
  • Pleurophricus A. Milne-Edwards, 1873
Family Palicidae Bouvier, 1898
  • EopalicusBeschin, Busulini, De Angeli & Tessier, 1996
  • Exopalicus Castro, 2000
  • Miropalicus Castro, 2000
  • Neopalicus Moosa & Serène, 1981
  • Palicoides Moosa & Serène, 1981
  • Paliculus Castro, 2000
  • Palicus Philippi, 1838
  • Parapalicus Moosa & Serène, 1981
  • Pseudopalicus Moosa & Serène, 1981
  • Rectopalicus Castro, 2000
  • SpinipalicusBeschin & De Angeli, 2003

References

  1. Peter Davie (2009). "Palicoidea". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved January 28, 2010. 
  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. 
  3. Peter K. L. Ng, Danièle Guinot & Peter J. F. Davie (2008). "Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 17: 1–286. 


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