Percnon

Percnon
Percnon gibbesi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Brachyura
Family: Percnidae
Genus: Percnon
Gistel, 1848 
Synonyms
  • Acanthopus De Haan, 1833
  • Leiolophus Miers, 1876
  • Liolophus Alcock, 1876

Percnon is a genus of crabs in the family Percnidae. It has also been included in the family Plagusiidae as subfamily Percninae.

Species

Seven extant species are recognised:

There are two species only known from fossils:

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Percnon Gistel, 1848". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. 2023. Retrieved 27 March 2023.
  2. 1 2 "Percnon Gistel, 1848". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 27 March 2023.
  3. ↑ Ng, Peter K. L.; Guinot, Danièle; Davie, Peter J. F. (January 2008). "Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 17: 1–286. Archived (PDF) from the original on 6 June 2011. Retrieved 8 June 2011 – via the National University of Singapore.