Name - Aphanodactylidae Ahyong & Ng 2009
Name Details
Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)
urn:lsid:organismnames.com:name:4398554 [metadata]
Reported Taxonomic Ranks
Family
Reported Taxonomic Hierarchies
Animalia (Kingdom) Arthropoda (Phylum) Crustacea (Subphylum) Malacostraca (Class) Eumalacostraca (Subclass) Eucarida (Superorder) Decapoda (Order) Reptantia (Suborder) Brachyura (Infraorder) |
References
Original Description Reference
- Aphanodactylidae, a new family of thoracotreme crabs (Crustacea: Brachyura) symbiotic with polychaete worms. Zootaxa, 2289, 13 Nov 2009: 33-47. [Zoological Record Volume 146]
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Recent Publications
- Aphanodactylidae, a new family of thoracotreme crabs (Crustacea: Brachyura) symbiotic with polychaete worms.
- Selwynia, a senior synonym of Aphanodactylus, with a redescription of Selwynia laevis (Crustacea: Brachyura: Pinnotheroidea: Aphanodactylidae).
- On the genera Selwynia Borradaile, 1903, and Gandoa Kammerer, 2006, with descriptions of two new species from Papua New Guinea and French Polynesia (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Aphanodactylidae).
- Further polyphyly of pinnotheroid crabs: the molecular phylogenetic position of the polychaete-associated Aphanodactylidae.
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