Tanaocheles

Tanaocheles
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Infraorder: Brachyura
Superfamily: Pilumnoidea
Family: Tanaocheleidae
Ng & Clark, 2000
Genus: Tanaocheles
Kropp, 1984 [1]
Species
  • Tanaocheles bidentata (Nobili 1901)
  • Tanaocheles stenochilus Kropp, 1984

Tanaocheles is a genus of crabs, the only genus in the family Tanaocheleidae.[2] It contains two species, T. bidentata and T. stenochilus.[3] The two species were formerly placed in different families, and they were only shown to be related, and placed in a new subfamily (now elevated to the taxonomic rank of family), in 2000.[3]

Tanaocheles bidentata

Originally described as Chlorodius bidentatus, and later called Chlorodiella bidentata, Tanaocheles bidentata was assigned for a long time to the Xanthidae.[4]

Tanaocheles stenochilus

Tanaocheles stenochilus was described in 1989 from material collected in Guam, where it lives among colonies of the stony coral Leptoseris gardineri. It was originally placed in the Trapeziidae.[1]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Roy K. Kropp (1984). "Tanaocheles stenochilus, a new genus and species of crab from Guam, Mariana Islands (Brachyura: Xanthidae)". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 97 (4): 744–747.
  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. ↑ 3.0 3.1 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.
  4. ↑ Peter K. L. Ng & Paul F. Clark (2000). "The Indo-Pacific Pilumnidae XII. On the familial placement of Chlorodiella bidentata (Nobili, 1901) and Tanaocheles stenochilus Kropp, 1984 using adult and larval characters with the establishment of a new subfamily, Tanaochelinae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura)". Journal of Natural History 34 (2): 207–245. doi:10.1080/002229300299615.