Hymenosomatidae

Hymenosomatidae
Amarinus lacustris
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Suborder:	Pleocyemata
Infraorder:	Brachyura
Subsection:	Heterotremata
Superfamily:	Hymenosomatoidea
Family:	Hymenosomatidae Macleay, 1838
Genera
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Hymenosomatidae is a family of crabs with some 110 described species in 24 genera.^[1][2] The following genera are placed in the Hymenosomatidae:^[3]

• Amarinus
• Apechocinus
• Cancrocaeca
• Crustaenia
• Culexisoma
• Elamena
• Elamenopsis
• Guaplax
• Halicarcinides
• Halicarcinus
• Halimena
• Hymenicoides
• Hymenosoma
• Limnopilos
• Lucascinus
• Micas
• Neohymenicus
• Neorhynchoplax
• Nasutoplax
• Odiomaris
• Rhynchoplax
• Stimpsoplax
• Sulaplax
• Trigonoplax

References

1. Tohru Naruse; Peter K. L. Ng; Daniele Guinot (2008). "Two new genera and two new species of troglobitic false spider crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Hymenosomatidae) from Indonesia, with notes on Cancrocaeca Ng, 1991" (PDF). Zootaxa. 1739: 21–40.
2. Poore, G.C.B.; Guinot, D.; Komai, T.; Naruse, T. (2016). "Reappraisal of species attributed to Halicarcinus White, 1846 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Hymenosomatidae) with diagnosis of four new genera and one new species from New Ireland, Papua New Guinea". Zootaxa. 4093: 480–514. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4093.4.2.
3. 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.

External links

• Australian Government Department of Environment & Heritage^{[permanent dead link‍]}