Biology:Ethusidae

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Short description: Family of crabs

Ethusidae
Ethusidae - Ethusa mascarone.JPG
Ethusa mascarone
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Brachyura
Superfamily: Dorippoidea
Family: Ethusidae
Guinot, 1977[1]
Genera

4, See below.

Ethusidae is one of two extant families of crabs in the superfamily Dorippoidea. It contains four genera. Members of this family are found in marine environments at depths from 16m to 4,192m.[2]

Genera

  • Ethusa Roux, 1830
  • Ethusina Smith, 1884
  • Parethusa Chen, 1997
  • Serpenthusa Naruse, Castro & Ng, 2009[3]

References

  1. Guinot (1977). Propositions pour une nouvelle classification des Crustacés Décapodes Brachyoures. Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l’Académie des sciences, ser. D, vol. 285, p. 1049–1052.
  2. EOL.org
  3. 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. 
  • Ng, Guinot & Davie (2008). Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant brachyuran crabs of the world. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology Supplement, n. 17 p. 1–286.

Wikidata ☰ Q2354984 entry