Blepharipodidae
| Blepharipodidae Temporal range: Eocene–Recent | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Crustacea |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Infraorder: | Anomura |
| Superfamily: | Hippoidea |
| Family: | Blepharipodidae Boyko, 2002 |
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Blepharipodidae is a family of sand crabs (Hippoidea), comprising the two genera Blepharipoda and Lophomastix.[1] They are distinguished from the other families in the superfamily Hippoidea by the form of the gills, which are trichobranchiate (filamentous) in Blepharipodidae, but phyllobranchiate (lamellar) in Albuneidae and Hippidae.[2][3] Fossils belonging to the genus Lophomastix have been found in rocks dating back to the Eocene.[4][5]
References
- ↑ Christopher Boyko (2010). "Blepharipodidae". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved March 18, 2012.
- ↑ Christopher B. Boyko (2002). "A worldwide revision of the Recent and fossil sand crabs of the Albuneidae Stimpson and Blepharipodidae, new family (Crustacea, Decapoda, Anomura, Hippoidea)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 272: 1–396. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2002)272<0001:AWROTR>2.0.CO;2.
- ↑ Patsy A. McLaughlin, Rafael Lemaitre & Ulf Sorhannus (2007). "Hermit crab phylogeny: a reappraisal and its "fall-out"" (PDF). Journal of Crustacean Biology 27 (1): 97–115. doi:10.1651/S-2675.1.
- ↑ Torrey Nyborg & Francisco J. Vega (2008). "Three new fossil species of Lophomastix (Decapoda: Blepharipodidae) from the Cenozoic of Washington". Journal of Crustacean Biology 28 (2): 361–369. doi:10.1651/0278-0372(2008)028[0361:TNFSOL]2.0.CO;2.
- ↑ Carrie E. Schweitzer & Christopher B. Boyko (2000). "First report of the genus Lophomastix Benedict, 1904 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Albuneidae) in the fossil record and a reappraisal of the status of Blepharipoda brucei Rathbun, 1926". Journal of Paleontology 74 (4): 631–635. doi:10.1666/0022-3360(2000)074<0631:FROTGL>2.0.CO;2. JSTOR 1306943.