Biology:Euryplacidae

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Short description: Family of crustaceans

Euryplacidae
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Eucrate crenata
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Brachyura
Superfamily: Goneplacoidea
Family: Euryplacidae
Stimpson, 1871

Euryplacidae is a family of crabs in the superfamily Goneplacoidea which consists of 14 existing genera and 31 existing species and 8 fossil genera and 15 fossil species.

Genera

There are 14 currently recognised extant genera in the family Euryplacidae:[1]

  • Eucrate De Haan, 1835
  • Euryplax Stimpson, 1859
  • Frevillea A. Milne-Edwards, 1880
  • Henicoplax Castro & Ng, 2010
  • Heteroplax Stimpson, 1858
  • Machaerus Leach, 1818
  • Nancyplax Lemaitre, García-Gómez, von Sternberg & Campos, 2001
  • Platyozius Borradaile, 1902
  • Psopheticoides Sakai, 1969
  • Systroplax Castro & Ng, 2010
  • Trissoplax Castro & Ng, 2010
  • Trizocarcinus Rathbun, 1914
  • Villoplax Castro & Ng, 2010
  • Xenocrate Ng & Castro, 2007
  • Chirinocarcinus Karasawa & Schweitzer, 2004
  • Chlinocephalus Ristori, 1886
  • Corallicarcinus Müller & Collins, 1991
  • Orbitoplax Tucker & Feldmann, 1990
  • Palaeopsopheticus Hu & Tao, 1996
  • Simonellia Vinassa de Regny, 1897
  • Stoaplax Vega, Cosma, Coutiño, Feldmann, Nyborg, Schweitzer & Waugh, 2001
  • Viaplax Karasawa & Kato, 2003

† = Extinct

References

  1. "Euryplacidae Stimpson, 1871". World Register of Marine Species. 2009. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=106756. Retrieved 18 February 2017. 

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