Hymenosomatidae

Hymenosomatidae
Amarinus lacustris
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Infraorder: Brachyura
Superfamily: Majoidea
Family: Hymenosomatidae
Macleay, 1838
Genera

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Hymenosomatidae is a family of crabs with some 110 described species in nearly 20 genera.[1] The following genera are placed in the Hymenosomatidae:[2]

  • Amarinus
  • Apechocinus
  • Cancrocaeca
  • Crustaenia
  • Elamena
  • Elamenopsis
  • Guaplax
  • Halicarcinides
  • Halicarcinus
  • Halimena
  • Hymenicoides
  • Hymenosoma
  • Limnopilos
  • Micas
  • Neohymenicus
  • Neorhynchoplax
  • Odiomaris
  • Sulaplax
  • Trigonoplax

References

  1. Tohru Naruse, Peter K. L. Ng & Daniele Guinot (2008). "Two new genera and two new species of troglobitic false spider crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Hymenosomatidae) from Indonesia, with notes on Cancrocaeca Ng, 1991". Zootaxa 1739: 21–40.
  2. Sammy De Grave, N. Dean Pentcheff, Shane T. Ahyong et al. (2009). "A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans". Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. Suppl. 21: 1–109.

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