Calappoidea
Calappoidea Temporal range:
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Calappa japonica seen from above | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Crustacea |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Order: | Decapoda |
Infraorder: | Brachyura |
Subsection: | Heterotremata |
Superfamily: | Calappoidea H. Milne-Edwards, 1837 |
Families | |
Calappoidea is a superfamily of crabs comprising the two families Calappidae and Matutidae.[1] The earliest fossils attributable to the Calappoidea date from the Aptian.[2]
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.
- ^ Andreas Brösing (2008). "A reconstruction of an evolutionary scenario for the Brachyura (Decapoda) in the context of the Cretaceous–Tertiary boundary" (PDF). Crustaceana. 81 (3): 271–287. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.652.1701. doi:10.1163/156854008783564091.
External links[]
- Data related to Calappoidea at Wikispecies
Categories:
- Calappoidea
- Crabs
- Aptian first appearances
- Extant Early Cretaceous first appearances
- Taxa named by Henri Milne-Edwards
- Arthropod superfamilies
- Crab stubs