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Epialtidae MacLeay 1838
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Family EPIALTIDAE MacLeay, 1838
According to Davie et al. (2015a), this large family includes 89 genera and 452 species. Four subfamilies are recognized, Epialtinae MacLeay, Pisinae Dana, Pliosomatinae Števčić, and Tychinae Dana (Ng et al 2008). They inhabit shallow waters, even intertidal (Emmerson 2016b,c).All the subfamilies except Pliosomatinae are represented in the study area
Notes
Published as part of Muñoz, Isabel, García-Isarch, Eva & Cuesta, Jose A., 2021, Annotated and updated checklist of marine crabs (Decapoda: Brachyura) of Mozambique supported by morphological and molecular data from shelf and slope species of the " MOZAMBIQUE " surveys, pp. 1-67 in Zootaxa 5056 (1) on page 28, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5056.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5577887
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- Scientific name authorship
- MacLeay
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Decapoda
- Family
- Epialtidae
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- family
- Taxonomic concept label
- Epialtidae MacLeay, 1838 sec. Muñoz, García-Isarch & Cuesta, 2021
References
- MacLeay, W. S. (1838) On the brachyurus Crustacea brought from the Cape by Dr Smith. In: Smith Elder & Co. (Eds.), Illustrations of the Zoology of South Africa, 5, Invertebratae. Smith Elder & Co., London, pp. 53 - 71.
- Davie, P. J. F., Guinot, D. & Ng, P. K. L. (2015 a) Systematics and classification of Brachyura. In: Castro, P., Davie, P. J. F., Guinot, D., Schram, F. & Von Vaupel Klein, J. C. (Eds.), Treatise on Zoology - Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology. The Crustacea, 9 C (I), Decapoda: Brachyura. Part 2. Brill, Leiden and Boston, pp. 1049 - 1130. https: // doi. org / 10.1163 / 9789004190832 _ 021
- Ng, P. K. L., Guinot, D. & Davie, P. J. F. (2008) Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 17, 1 - 286.
- Emmerson, W. D. (2016 b). A guide to, and checklist for, the Decapoda of Namibia, South Africa and Mozambique. Vol. 2. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, 645 pp.