Ethusidae

Summary

Ethusidae is one of two extant families of crabs in the superfamily Dorippoidea. It contains four genera. Members of this family are found in marine environments at depths from 16m to 4,192m.[2]

Ethusidae
Ethusa mascarone
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Brachyura
Superfamily: Dorippoidea
Family: Ethusidae
Guinot, 1977[1]
Genera

4, See below.

Genera edit

  • Ethusa Roux, 1830
  • Ethusina Smith, 1884
  • Parethusa Chen, 1997
  • Serpenthusa Naruse, Castro & Ng, 2009[3]

References edit

  1. ^ Guinot (1977). Propositions pour une nouvelle classification des Crustacés Décapodes Brachyoures. Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l’Académie des sciences, ser. D, vol. 285, p. 1049–1052.
  2. ^ EOL.org
  3. ^ 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.
  • Ng, Guinot & Davie (2008). Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant brachyuran crabs of the world. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology Supplement, n. 17 p. 1–286.