Albuneidae

Albuneidae
Temporal range: Maastrichtian–Recent
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Anomura
Superfamily: Hippoidea
Family: Albuneidae
Stimpson, 1858
Genera

Albuneinae

Lepidopinae

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. Fossil specimens have been described from the Cretaceous, Miocene and Oligocene.

References

  1. 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.
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ 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.

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