Albuneidae

Albuneidae is a little-known family of specialized burrowing sand crabs. There are 50 extant species as well as nine fossil species that have been described.[1] Fossil specimens have been described from the Cretaceous,[2] Miocene[3] and Oligocene.[4]

Albuneidae
Temporal range: Maastrichtian–Recent
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Subphylum:
Crustacea
Class:
Malacostraca
Order:
Decapoda
Infraorder:
Anomura
Superfamily:
Hippoidea
Family:
Albuneidae

Stimpson, 1858
Genera [1]

Albuneinae

  • Albunea
  • Paralbunea
  • Squillalbunea
  • Stemonopa
  • Zygopa

Lepidopinae

  • Austrolepidopa
  • Lepidopa
  • Leucolepidopa
  • Paraleucolepidopa

References
  1. 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.
  2. René H. B. Fraaije (2002). "The first record of albuneid crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda) from the Cretaceous" (PDF). Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum. 29: 69–72. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-12. Retrieved 2009-12-10.
  3. René H. B. Fraaije, Barry W. M. van Bakel & John W. M. Jagt (2008). "Albunea turritellacola, a new sand crab (Anomura, Albuneidae) from the lower Miocene of southwest France" (PDF). Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum. 34: 17–22. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-12. Retrieved 2009-12-10.
  4. Christopher B. Boyko (2004). "A new genus of fossil sand crab (Anomura: Albuneidae) from the Oligocene of Italy" (PDF). Palaeontology. 47 (4): 933–936. doi:10.1111/j.0031-0239.2004.00391.x.

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