Trichodactylidae
Temporal range: Miocene–Recent
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
(unranked): Reptantia
Infraorder: Brachyura
Section: Eubrachyura
Subsection: Heterotremata
Superfamily: Trichodactyloidea
H. Milne-Edwards, 1835
Genus: Trichodactylidae
H. Milne-Edwards, 1835 [1]

Trichodactylidae is a family of crabs, in its own superfamily, Trichodactyloidea. They are all freshwater animals from Central and South America,[2] including some offshore islands, such as Ilhabela, São Paulo.[3] Only one of the 50 species is known from the fossil record, Sylviocarcinus piriformis from the Miocene of Colombia.[4] The family contains 15 genera in two subfamilies:[5]

Subfamily Dilocarcininae Pretzmann, 1978
Subfamily Trichodactylinae H. Milne-Edwards, 1853

References

  1. ^ "Trichodactylidae". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved October 6, 2010.
  2. ^ Bianca L. Zimmermann; Analde W. Aued; Stela Machado; Dalara Manfio; Lauran P. Scarton & Sandro Santos (2009). "Behavioral repertory of Trichodactylus panoplus (Crustacea: Trichodactylidae) under laboratory conditions)" (PDF). Zoologia. 26 (1): 5–11. doi:10.1590/S1984-46702009000100002.
  3. ^ E. C. Mossolin & F. L. Mantelatto (2008). "Taxonomic and distributional results of a freshwater crab fauna survey (Family Trichodactylidae) on São Sebastião Island (Ilhabela), South Atlantic, Brazil" (PDF). Acta Limnologica Brasiliensis. 20 (2): 125–129. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-10-31.
  4. ^ Feldmann, Rodney M.; O'Connor, Patrick M.; Stevens, Nancy J.; Gottfried, Michael D.; Roberts, Eric M.; Ngasala, Sifa; Rasmusson, Erin L.; Kapilima, Saidi (2007). "A new freshwater crab (Decapoda: Brachyura: Potamonautidae) from the Paleogene of Tanzania, Africa" (PDF). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen. 244 (1): 71–78. doi:10.1127/0077-7749/2007/0244-0071.
  5. ^ 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.

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