Tanaocheles

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Tanaocheles
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Subphylum:
Crustacea
Class:
Malacostraca
Order:
Decapoda
Infraorder:
Brachyura
Superfamily:
Pilumnoidea
Family:
Tanaocheleidae

Ng & Clark, 2000
Genus:
Tanaocheles

Kropp, 1984 [1]
Species
  • Tanaocheles bidentata (Nobili 1901)
  • Tanaocheles stenochilus Kropp, 1984

Tanaocheles is a genus of crabs, the only genus in the family Tanaocheleidae.[2] It contains two species, T. bidentata and T. stenochilus.[3] The two species were formerly placed in different families, and they were only shown to be related, and placed in a new subfamily (now elevated to the taxonomic rank of family), in 2000.[3]

Tanaocheles bidentata[]

Originally described as Chlorodius bidentatus, and later called Chlorodiella bidentata, Tanaocheles bidentata was assigned for a long time to the Xanthidae.[4]

Tanaocheles stenochilus[]

Tanaocheles stenochilus was described in 1989 from material collected in Guam, where it lives among colonies of the stony coral Leptoseris gardineri. It was originally placed in the Trapeziidae.[1]

References[]

  1. ^ a b Roy K. Kropp (1984). "Tanaocheles stenochilus, a new genus and species of crab from Guam, Mariana Islands (Brachyura: Xanthidae)" (PDF). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 97 (4): 744–747.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ a b Peter K. L. Ng; Danièle Guinot & Peter J. F. Davie (2008). "Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 17: 1–286.
  4. ^ Peter K. L. Ng & Paul F. Clark (2000). "The Indo-Pacific Pilumnidae XII. On the familial placement of Chlorodiella bidentata (Nobili, 1901) and Tanaocheles stenochilus Kropp, 1984 using adult and larval characters with the establishment of a new subfamily, Tanaochelinae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura)". Journal of Natural History. 34 (2): 207–245. doi:10.1080/002229300299615.
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