Dromiacea
Temporal range: Jurassic–Recent
Dromia dormia (Dromioidea: Dromiidae) feeding on a sea urchin
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Brachyura
Section: Dromiacea
De Haan, 1833
Superfamilies

Dromiacea is a group of crabs, ranked as a section. It contains 240 extant and nearly 300 extinct species.[1] Dromiacea is the most basal grouping of Brachyura crabs, diverging the earliest in the evolutionary history, around the Late Triassic or Early Jurassic. Below is a cladogram showing Dromiacea's placement within Brachyura: [2] [3]

Brachyura

Dromiacea

Raninoida

Cyclodorippoida

Eubrachyura

Heterotremata

Thoracotremata

The larvae of Dromiacea resemble those of the Anomura more closely than those of other crabs.[citation needed] This may simply reflect their basal position in the crab phylogeny. The superfamily Eocarcinoidea, containing Eocarcinus and Platykotta, was previously considered to be a member of the Dromiacea, but has since been transferred to the Anomura.[4]

The fossil record of Dromiacea reaches back at least as far as the Jurassic,[5] and, if Imocaris is indeed a member, into the Carboniferous.[6]

Dromiacea primarily consists of two groups of superfamilies - Dromioidea and Homoloidea. See the below cladogram:[2]

Dromiacea
Dromioidea

Dromiidae (may be paraphyletic)

Dynomenidae

Homoloidea

Homolidae (paraphyletic)

Latreilliidae

Recent studies have found that some of the families may not be monophyletic, but rather paraphyletic.[2]

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. ^ a b c Ling Ming Tsang; Christoph D. Schubart; Shane T. Ahyong; Joelle C.Y. Lai; Eugene Y.C. Au; Tin-Yam Chan; Peter K.L. Ng; Ka Hou Chu (2014). "Evolutionary History of True Crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) and the Origin of Freshwater Crabs". Molecular Biology and Evolution. Oxford University Press . 31 (5): 1173–1187. doi:10.1093/molbev/msu068.
  3. ^ Wolfe, Joanna M.; Breinholt, Jesse W.; Crandall, Keith A.; Lemmon, Alan R.; Lemmon, Emily Moriarty; Timm, Laura E.; Siddall, Mark E.; Bracken-Grissom, Heather D. (24 April 2019). "A phylogenomic framework, evolutionary timeline and genomic resources for comparative studies of decapod crustaceans". Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 286 (1901). doi:10.1098/rspb.2019.0079. PMC 6501934. PMID 31014217.
  4. ^ Jérôme Chablais; Rodney M. Feldmann; Carrie E. Schweitzer (2011). "A new Triassic decapod, Platykotta akaina, from the Arabian shelf of the northern United Arab Emirates: earliest occurrence of the Anomura" (PDF). Paläontologische Zeitschrift. 85: 93–102. doi:10.1007/s12542-010-0080-y.
  5. ^ J. W. Wägele. "On the influence of fishes on the evolution of benthic crustaceans". Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research. 27 (4): 297–309. doi:10.1111/j.1439-0469.1989.tb00352.x.
  6. ^ Frederick Schram & Royal Mapes (1984). "Imocaris tuberculata, n. gen., n. sp. (Crustacea: Decapoda) from the upper Mississippian Imo Formation, Arkansas". Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History. 20 (11): 165–168.
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