Albuneidae
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Anomura |
| Superfamily: | Hippoidea |
| Family: | Albuneidae Stimpson, 1858 |
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Albuneidae is a little-known family of specialized burrowing sand crabs. There are 50 extant species as well as nine fossil species that have been described.[1] Fossil specimens have been described from the Cretaceous,[2] Miocene[3] and Oligocene.[4]
References
[edit]- 1 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. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-06.
- ↑ René H. B. Fraaije (2002). "The first record of albuneid crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda) from the Cretaceous" (PDF). Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum. 29: 69–72. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-12. Retrieved 2009-12-10.
- ↑ René H. B. Fraaije, Barry W. M. van Bakel & John W. M. Jagt (2008). "Albunea turritellacola, a new sand crab (Anomura, Albuneidae) from the lower Miocene of southwest France" (PDF). Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum. 34: 17–22. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-12. Retrieved 2009-12-10.
- ↑ Christopher B. Boyko (2004). "A new genus of fossil sand crab (Anomura: Albuneidae) from the Oligocene of Italy" (PDF). Palaeontology. 47 (4): 933–936. Bibcode:2004Palgy..47..933B. doi:10.1111/j.0031-0239.2004.00391.x.
Further reading
[edit]- John C. Markham; Christopher B. Boyko (2003). "A new species of Albunione Markham & Boyko, 1999 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Bopyridae: Pseudioninae) from Taiwan". American Museum Novitates (3410): 1–7. doi:10.1206/0003-0082(2003)410<0001:ANSOAM>2.0.CO;2. S2CID 85854938.
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