Ethusidae
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Family of crabs
| Ethusidae | |
|---|---|
| Ethusa mascarone | |
| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Brachyura |
| Superfamily: | Dorippoidea |
| Family: | Ethusidae Guinot, 1977[1] |
| Genera | |
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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
[edit ]- Ethusa Roux, 1830
- Ethusina Smith, 1884
- Parethusa Chen, 1997
- Serpenthusa Naruse, Castro & Ng, 2009[3]
References
[edit ]- ^ 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.
- ^ EOL.org
- ^ 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. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011年06月06日.
Further reading
[edit ]- 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.
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