Inachoididae
Appearance
Inachoididae | |
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Anasimus latus | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Order: | Decapoda |
Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
Infraorder: | Brachyura |
Superfamily: | Majoidea |
Family: | Inachoididae Dana, 1851 |
Inachoididae is a family of crabs originally erected by James Dwight Dana in 1852. It was not recognised as a valid family until the early 1980s.[1] Its members closely resemble those of the family Inachidae, and the Inachoididae could be recognised as a subfamily of that family.[1]
- Aepinus Rathbun, 1897
- Anasimus A. Milne-Edwards, 1880
- Arachnopsis Stimpson, 1871
- Batrachonotus Stimpson, 1871
- Collodes Stimpson, 1860
- Euprognatha Stimpson, 1871
- Inachoides H. Milne-Edwards & Lucas, 1842
- Leurocyclus Rathbun, 1897
- Paradasygyius Garth, 1958
- Pyromaia Stimpson, 1871
References
[edit]- ^ a b 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. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-06.