Biology:Calappidae
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Short description: Family of crabs
Calappidae | |
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Calappa japonica seen from above; the front of the animal is at the top of the picture | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Order: | Decapoda |
Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
Infraorder: | Brachyura |
Superfamily: | Calappoidea |
Family: | Calappidae Milne-Edwards, 1837 |
Calappidae is a family of crabs containing 16 genera, of which 7 are only known as fossils:[1][2][3]
- Acanthocarpus Stimpson, 1871
- Calappa Weber, 1795
- † Calappella Rathbun, 1919
- † Calappilia A. Milne-Edwards, 1873
- Calappula Galil, 1997
- Cryptosoma Brullé, 1839
- Cycloes De Haan, 1837
- Cyclozodion Williams & Child, 1989
- Mursia A. G. Desmarest, 1823
- † Mursilata C.-H. Hu & Tao, 1996
- † Mursilia Rathbun, 1918
- † Mursiopsis Ristori, 1889
- Paracyclois Miers, 1886
- Platymera H. Milne Edwards, 1837
- † Stenodromia A. Milne-Edwards, 1873
- † Tutus Collins in Collins, Portell & Donovan, 2009
Fossils within this family can be found in sediment of Europe, United States , Mexico, Central America, Australia and Japan from Cretaceous to recent (age range: 66.043 to 0.0 Ma).[4]
References
- ↑ Sammy De Grave et al. (2009). "A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology Suppl. 21: 1–109. Archived from the original on 2011-06-06. https://web.archive.org/web/20110606064728/http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s21/s21rbz1-109.pdf.
- ↑ Biolib
- ↑ Peter Davie (2015). "Calappidae". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=106747.
- ↑ Fossilworks
Wikidata ☰ Q659623 entry
Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calappidae.
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