Albuneidae

Albuneidae
Temporal range: Maastrichtian–Recent
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Infraorder: Anomura
Superfamily: Hippoidea
Family: Albuneidae
Stimpson, 1858
Genera [1]

Albuneinae

  • Albunea
  • Paralbunea
  • Squillalbunea
  • Stemonopa
  • Zygopa

Lepidopinae

  • Austrolepidopa
  • Lepidopa
  • Leucolepidopa
  • Paraleucolepidopa

Albuneidae is a little-known family of specialized burrowing sand crabs. There are 50 extant species as well as nine fossil species that have been described.[1] Fossil specimens have been described from the Cretaceous,[2] Miocene[3] and Oligocene.[4]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 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.
  2. ↑ René H. B. Fraaije (2002). "The first record of albuneid crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda) from the Cretaceous" (PDF). Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum 29: 69–72.
  3. ↑ René H. B. Fraaije, Barry W. M. van Bakel & John W. M. Jagt (2008). "Albunea turritellacola, a new sand crab (Anomura, Albuneidae) from the lower Miocene of southwest France" (PDF). Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum 34: 17–22.
  4. ↑ Christopher B. Boyko (2004). "A new genus of fossil sand crab (Anomura: Albuneidae) from the Oligocene of Italy" (PDF). Palaeontology 47 (4): 933–936. doi:10.1111/j.0031-0239.2004.00391.x.

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