Leucosiidae

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Leucosiidae
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Ebalia tumefacta
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Brachyura
Superfamily: Leucosioidea
Family: Leucosiidae
Samouelle, 1819
Subfamilies
  • Cryptocnemidae Stimpson, 1907
  • Ebaliinae Stimpson, 1871
  • Leucosiinae Samouelle, 1819

Leucosiidae is a family of crabs containing three subfamilies and a number of genera incertae sedis : [1]

Cryptocneminae Stimpson, 1907
Ebaliinae Stimpson, 1871
Leucosiinae Samouelle, 1819
incertae sedis

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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. ↑ Tomoyuki Komai; Peter K. L. Ng (2012). "A new genus and new species of leucosiid crab (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) from coral reefs in the Indo-West Pacific" (PDF excerpt). Zootaxa . 3352: 40–50. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3352.1.4.
  3. ↑ Hironori Komatsu; Peter K. L. Ng (2011). "Kabutos, a new genus for the western Pacific leucosiid crab, Merocryptus durandi Serène, 1955 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura)" (PDF excerpt). Zootaxa . 2881: 31–38. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2881.1.2.
  4. ↑ Carrie E. Schweitzer; Peter C. Dworschak; Joel W. Martin (2011). "Replacement names for several fossil Decapoda". Journal of Crustacean Biology . 31 (2): 361–363. doi: 10.1651/10-3395.1 .


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