Pilumnoides

Pilumnoides
Pilumnoides rubus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Suborder:	Pleocyemata
Infraorder:	Brachyura
Family:	Pilumnoididae
Genus:	Pilumnoides H. Lucas in H. Milne-Edwards & H. Lucas, 1844
Type species
Pilumnoides perlatus (Poeppig, 1836)

Pilumnoides is a genus of crabs in the family Pilumnoididae. The genus was erected by Hippolyte Lucas in 1844. ^{[1] [2]} It contains the following species: ^{[1] [3]}

• Pilumnoides coelhoi Guinot & Macpherson, 1987 – Abrolhos Archipelago
• Pilumnoides hassleri A. Milne-Edwards, 1880 – Atlantic coast of South America
• Pilumnoides inglei Guinot & Macpherson, 1987 – south coast of England
• Pilumnoides monodi Guinot & Macpherson, 1987 – Gabon
• Pilumnoides nudifrons (Stimpson, 1871) – Caribbean Sea
• Pilumnoides perlatus (Poeppig, 1836) – Pacific coast of South America
• Pilumnoides rotundus Garth, 1940 – Pacific coast of the Neotropics
• Pilumnoides rubus Guinot & Macpherson, 1987 – south-western Africa ^[4]

References

1. Peter Davie & Charles Fransen (2009). "Pilumnoides". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species . Retrieved January 31, 2017.
2. 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.
3. Danièle Guinot & Enrique Macpherson (1987). "Révision du genre Pilumnoides Lucas, 1844, avec description de quatre espèces nouvelles et création de Pilumnoidinae subfam. nov. (Crustacea Decapoda Brachyura)" (PDF). Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. 4th series. 9 (A1): 211–247. doi:10.5962/p.287512.
4. Branch, G.M.; Griffiths, C.L.; Branch, M.L.; Beckley, L.E. (2000). Two Oceans: A guide to the marine life of southern Africa (5th impression ed.). Cape Town: David Philip. ISBN   0-86486-250-4.