Biology:Inachoididae

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Short description: Family of crabs

Inachoididae
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Anasimus latus
Scientific classification e
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

  1. 1.0 1.1 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. Archived from the original on 2011-06-06. https://web.archive.org/web/20110606061453/http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s17/s17rbz.pdf. 

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