Hirsutiidae

Hirsutiidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Superorder: Peracarida
Order: Bochusacea
Gutu & Iliffe, 1998
Family: Hirsutiidae
Sanders, Hessler & Garner, 1985
Genera
  • Hirsutia Saunders, Hessler & Garner, 1985
  • Thetispelecaris Gutu & Iliffe, 1998
  • Montucaris Jaume, Boxshall & Bamber, 2006

Hirsutiidae is a family of crustaceans, classified either as a separate order, Bochusacea,[1] or as part of a wider Mictacea. It comprises five species in three genera:[1][2][3]

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Shane T. Ahyong, James K. Lowry, Miguel Alonso, Roger N. Bamber, Geoffrey A. Boxshall, Peter Castro, Sarah Gerken, Gordan S. Karaman, Joseph W. Goy, Diana S. Jones, Kenneth Meland, D. Christopher Rogers & Jörundur Svavarsson (2011). "Subphylum Crustacea Brünnich, 1772" (PDF). In Z.-Q. Zhang. Animal biodiversity: an outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. Zootaxa 3148. pp. 165–191.
  2. J. K. Lowry & M. Yerman. "Mictacea: checklist". crustacea.net. Australian Museum. Retrieved September 3, 2007.
  3. Damià Jaume, Geoff A. Boxshall & Roger N. Bamber (2006). "A new genus from the continental slope off Brazil and the discovery of the first males in the Hirsutiidae (Crustacea: Peracarida: Bochusacea)" (PDF). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 148 (2): 169–208. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2006.00235.x.