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Inachoididae

Guinot, Danièle;Bakel, Barry Van

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Inachoididae

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Inachoididae is a family of crabs originally erected by James Dwight Dana in 1852. It was not recognised as a valid family until the early 1980s. Its members closely resemble those of the family Inachidae, and the Inachoididae could be recognised as a subfamily of that family.

Species

FAMILY

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassMalacostraca
  4. OrderDecapoda
  5. FamilyInachoididae
Habitatmarine

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
17
With media
16
Family
Inachoididae
Collections
USNM, CAS, NHMUK, FWRI
Recorded in
United States, Mexico, Panama, Portugal, Suriname, Voor Z. Kust V. Panama, Brazil, Voor Kust V. Frans Guyana

Wikidata facts

Instance of
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Parent taxon
Majoidea
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taxon name
Inachoididae
taxon rank
family
Commons category
Inachoididae
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Category:Inachoididae
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Inachoididae is a family of crabs originally erected by James Dwight Dana in 1852. It was not recognised as a valid family until the early 1980s. Its members closely resemble those of the family Inachidae, and the Inachoididae could be recognised as a subfamily of that family. Aepinus Rathbun, 1897 Anasimus A. Milne-Edwards, 1880 Arachnopsis Stimpson, 1871 Batrachonotus Stimpson, 1871 Collodes Stimpson, 1860 Euprognatha Stimpson, 1871 Inachoides H. Milne-Edwards & Lucas, 1842 Leurocyclus Rathbun, 1897 Paradasygyius Garth, 1958 Pyromaia Stimpson, 1871

==References==

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Inachoididae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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