Biology:Dynomenidae

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Short description: Family of crabs

Dynomenidae
Dynomène de Latreille (Dynomene hispida).jpg
Dynomene hispida
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Brachyura
Superfamily: Dromioidea
Family: Dynomenidae
Ortmann, 1892[1]
Genera

19 (14 fossil, 5 extant), See below

Dynomenidae is a family of crabs in the superfamily Dromioidea mostly found in Madagascar . There are nineteen genera in this family: five extant and fourteen known from fossils:[2]

  • Acanthodromia A. Milne-Edwards, 1880
  • Dynomene Desmarest, 1823
  • Hirsutodynomene McLay, 1999
  • Metadynomene McLay, 1999
  • Paradynomene Sakai, 1963
  • Acanthodiaulax Schweitzer et al., 2003
  • Basinotopus M'Coy, 1849
  • Cyamocarcinus Bittner, 1883
  • Dromiopsis Reuss, 1858
  • Dynomenopsis Secretan, 1972
  • Eotrachynotocarcinus Beschin et al., 2007
  • Gemmellarocarcinus Checchia-Rispoli, 1905
  • Graptocarcinus Roemer, 1887
  • Kierionopsis Davidson, 1966
  • Maurimia Martins-Neto, 2001
  • Ovamene Müller & Collins, 1991
  • Stephanometopon Bosquet, 1854
  • Trechmannius Collins & Donovan, 2006
  • Xandaros Bishop, 1988


References

  1. Ortmann, 1892 : Die Decapoden-Krebse des Strassburger Museums, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der von Herrn Dr. Döderlein bei Japan und bei den Liu-Kiu-Inseln gesammelten und zur Zeit im Strassburger Museum aufbewahrten Formen. V Theil. Die Abtheilungen Hippidea, Dromiidea und Oxystomata. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Thiere, vol. 6, p. 532–588.
  2. 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. 

Further reading

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q3042082 entry