Calappidae
Calappidae Temporal range:
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Calappa japonica seen from above; the front of the animal is at the top of the picture | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Crustacea |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Order: | Decapoda |
Infraorder: | Brachyura |
Superfamily: | Calappoidea |
Family: | Calappidae Milne-Edwards, 1837 |
Calappidae is a family of crabs containing 16 genera, of which 7 are only known as fossils:[1][2][3]
- Acanthocarpus Stimpson, 1871
- Calappa Weber, 1795
- † Rathbun, 1919
- † Calappilia A. Milne-Edwards, 1873
- Calappula Galil, 1997
- Cryptosoma Brullé, 1839
- Cycloes De Haan, 1837
- Cyclozodion Williams & Child, 1989
- Mursia A. G. Desmarest, 1823
- † C.-H. Hu & Tao, 1996
- † Rathbun, 1918
- † Mursiopsis Ristori, 1889
- Paracyclois Miers, 1886
- Platymera H. Milne Edwards, 1837
- † A. Milne-Edwards, 1873
- † Collins in Collins, Portell & Donovan, 2009
Fossils within this family can be found in sediment of Europe, United States, Mexico, Central America, Australia and Japan from Cretaceous to recent (age range: 66.043 to 0.0 Ma).[4]
References[]
- ^ 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.
- ^ Biolib
- ^ Peter Davie (2015). "Calappidae". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 12 December 2015.
- ^ Fossilworks
Categories:
- Calappoidea
- Extant Cretaceous first appearances
- Taxa named by Henri Milne-Edwards
- Decapod families
- Crab stubs