Plagusiidae
Plagusiidae | |
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Percnon gibbesi | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Crustacea |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Order: | Decapoda |
Infraorder: | Brachyura |
Superfamily: | Grapsoidea |
Family: | Plagusiidae Dana, 1851 [1] |
Genera | |
See text |
The Plagusiidae are a family of crabs, formerly treated as a subfamily of the family Grapsidae, but hae since been considered sufficiently distinct to be a family in their own right.[2]
Six genera are included in the family:[3]
- Davusia Guinot, 2007
- Euchirograpsus H. Milne-Edwards, 1853
- Guinusia Schubart & Cuesta, 2010
- Miersiograpsus Türkay, 1978
- Percnon Gistel, 1848
- Plagusia Latreille, 1804
References
- ↑ "Plagusiidae Dana, 1851". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved April 4, 2011.
- ↑ Peter K. L. Ng, Danièle Guinot & Peter J. F. Davie (2008). "Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 17: 1–286.
- ↑ Peter Davie & Charles Fransen (2012). "Plagusiidae". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved December 11, 2012.
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