Trichodactylidae

Trichodactylidae
Temporal range: Miocene–Recent
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Infraorder: Brachyura
Section: Eubrachyura
Subsection: Heterotremata
Superfamily: Trichodactyloidea
H. Milne-Edwards, 1835
Family: Trichodactylidae
H. Milne-Edwards, 1835 [1]

Trichodactylidae is a family of crabs, in its own superfamily, Trichodactyloidea. They are all freshwater animals from Central and South America,[2] including some offshore islands, such as Ilhabela, São Paulo.[3] Only one of the 50 species is known from the fossil record, Sylviocarcinus piriformis from the Miocene of Colombia.[4] The family contains 15 genera in two subfamilies:[5]

Subfamily Dilocarcininae Pretzmann, 1978
Subfamily Trichodactylinae H. Milne-Edwards, 1853

References

  1. "Trichodactylidae". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved October 6, 2010.
  2. Bianca L. Zimmermann, Analde W. Aued, Stela Machado, Dalara Manfio, Lauran P. Scarton & Sandro Santos (2009). "Behavioral repertory of Trichodactylus panoplus (Crustacea: Trichodactylidae) under laboratory conditions)" (PDF). Zoologia 26 (1): 5–11.
  3. E. C. Mossolin & F. L. Mantelatto (2008). "Taxonomic and distributional results of a freshwater crab fauna survey (Family Trichodactylidae) on São Sebastião Island (Ilhabela), South Atlantic, Brazil" (PDF). Acta Limnologica Brasiliensis 20 (2): 125–129.
  4. "A new freshwater crab (Decapoda: Brachyura: Potamonautidae) from the Paleogene of Tanzania, Africa" (PDF). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Abhandlungen 244 (1): 71–78. 2007.
  5. 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.

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