Pilumnoidea

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Pilumnoidea
Temporal range: Maastrichtian–Recent
File:Pilumnus hirtellus.jpg
Pilumnus hirtellus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Brachyura
Subsection: Heterotremata
Superfamily: Pilumnoidea
Samouelle, 1819
Families

Pilumnoidea is a superfamily of crabs,[1][2] whose members were previously included in the Xanthoidea.[3] The three families are unified by the free articulation of all the segments of the male crab's abdomen and by the form of the gonopods.[2] The earliest fossils assigned to this group are of Eocene age.[4]

Classification

Pilumnidae is by far the largest of the three families, with 73 of the 78 genera:[2]

Pilumnidae Samouelle, 1819
Galenidae Alcock, 1898
Tanaocheleidae Ng & P. F. Clark, 2000

Gallery

References

  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.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 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. Joel W. Martin & George E. Davis (2001). An Updated Classification of the Recent Crustacea (PDF). Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. p. 132.
  4. Carrie E. Schweitzer (2003). "Progress on the fossil Xanthoidea MacLeay, 1838 (Decapoda, Brachyura)". Contributions to Zoology. 72 (2/3).
  5. "Crinoid crabs - Family Pilumnidae". wildsingapore.com. 2019-12-31. Retrieved 2023-05-07.