Pinnotheroidea

Pinnotheroidea
Pinnotheres pisum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Clade: Reptantia
Infraorder: Brachyura
Section: Eubrachyura
Subsection: Thoracotremata
Superfamily: Pinnotheroidea
De Haan, 1833
Families

Pinnotheroidea is a superfamily of true crabs. Species of this group are symbionts of other invertebrates, including other crustaceans, mollusks, annelids, echinoderms and tunicates.

Taxonomy

The superfamily used to include families Pinnotheridae and Aphanodactylidae, but phylogenetic analyses have shown they are not closely related, prompting the reassignment of the latter to a distinct superfamily, Aphanodactyloidea. Tsang & Naruse (2023) divided the remaining pinnotheroids into three families by establishing Parapinnixidae and Tetriasidae as families equal in status to Pinnotheridae sensu stricto.

References

  1. 1 2 Tsang, Ling Ming; Ahyong, Shane T.; Shih, Hsi-Te; Ng, Peter K. L. (2018-02-09). "Further polyphyly of pinnotheroid crabs: the molecular phylogenetic position of the polychaete-associated Aphanodactylidae". Invertebrate Systematics. 32 (1): 92–99. doi:10.1071/IS17038. ISSN 1445-5226.
  2. ↑ Xu, Tao; Bravo, Henrique; van der Meij, Sancia E.T. (2023-10-16). "Phylomitogenomics elucidates the evolution of symbiosis in Thoracotremata (Decapoda: Cryptochiridae, Pinnotheridae, Varunidae)". PeerJ. 11 e16217. doi:10.7717/peerj.16217. ISSN 2167-8359. PMC 10586294. PMID 37868050.
  3. ↑ Palacios Theil, Emma; Cuesta, José A.; Felder, Darryl L. (2016-03-16). "Molecular evidence for non-monophyly of the pinnotheroid crabs (Crustacea : Brachyura : Pinnotheroidea), warranting taxonomic reappraisal". Invertebrate Systematics. 30 (1): 1–27. doi:10.1071/IS15023. ISSN 1445-5226.
  4. ↑ Tsang, Ling Ming; Naruse, Tohru (2023-03-06). "Recognition of Parapinnixidae Števčić, 2005, and Tetriasidae fam. nov. in Pinnotheroidea De Haan, 1833 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Thoracotremata)". Zootaxa. 5249 (5): 540–558. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5249.5.2. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 37044747.