Published November 15, 2010 | Version v1

Porcellanidae Haworth 1825

  • 1. Australian Museum, 6 College St., Sydney, NSW 2010, Australia. E-mail: shane. ahyong @ austmus. gov. au
  • 2. Kumamoto University, Faculty of Education, 2 - 40 - 1 Kurokami, Kumamoto 860 - 8555, Japan. E-mail: kbaba. kumamoto @ gmail. com Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Blanes (CSIC), C. acc. Cala Sant Francesc 14, 17300 Blanes, Girona, Spain.
  • 3. Museum Victoria, GPO Box 666, Melbourne, Vic. 3001, Australia. E-mail: gpoore @ museum. vic. gov. au

Description

Porcellanidae Haworth, 1825

Porcellanidae Haworth, 1825: 184.

Diagnosis. Rostrum well developed to obsolete, if well-developed, broad, subtriangular, flattened. Supraocular spines present or absent. Carapace (excluding rostrum) longer than wide to wider than long; dorsal surface smooth or variously ornamented with faint striae or tubercles. Tailfan well developed, folded against preceding somite, telson distinctly subdivided into 5 or 7 plates. Eyes with well-developed cornea. Antennal peduncle directed laterally or posteriorly. Maxilliped 1 exopod flagellum well developed. Maxilliped 3 operculiform; ischium and merus elongate, broad, expanded mesially; epipod absent. Chelipeds flattened.

Remarks. De Grave et al. (2009) provide a checklist of extant and fossil porcellanid genera and Osawa & McLaughlin (2010) list the extant porcellanid species.

Notes

Published as part of Ahyong, Shane T., Baba, Keiji, Macpherson, Enrique & Poore, Gary C. B., 2010, A new classification of the Galatheoidea (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura), pp. 57-68 in Zootaxa 2676 (1) on page 64, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2676.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/5302184

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Haworth
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Decapoda
Family
Porcellanidae
Taxon rank
family
Taxonomic concept label
Porcellanidae Haworth, 1825 sec. Ahyong, Baba, Macpherson & Poore, 2010

References

  • Haworth, A. H. (1825) A new binary arrangement of the macrurous Crustacea. The Philosophical Magazine and Journal, 65, 183 - 184.
  • De Grave, S., Pentcheff, N. D., Ahyong, S. T., Chan, T. - Y., Crandall, K. A., Dworschak, P. C., Felder, D. L., Feldmann, R. M., Fransen, C. H. J. M., Goulding, L. Y. D., Lemaitre, R., Low, M. E. Y., Martin, J. W., Ng, P. K. L., Schweitzer, C. E., Tan, S. H., Tshudy, D. & Wetzer, R. (2009) A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod Crustaceans. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Supplement 21, 1 - 109.
  • Osawa, M. & McLaughlin, P. A. (2010) Annotated checklist of anomuran decapod crustaceans of the world (exclusive of the Kiwaoidea and families Chirostylidae and Galatheidae of the Galatheoidea) Part II - Porcellanidae. In: Low, M. E. Y. & Tan, S. H. (Eds), Checklists of anomuran decapod crustaceans of the world (exclusive of the Kiwaoidea and families Chirostylidae and Galatheidae of the Galatheoidea) and marine lobsters of the world. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Supplement 23, 109 - 129.