Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Superclassis: Multicrustacea
Classis: Malacostraca
Subclassis: Eumalacostraca
Superordo: Eucarida
Ordo: Decapoda
Subordo: Pleocyemata
Infraordo: Anomura
Superfamilia: Hippoidea
Familia: Albuneidae
Genus: Albunea
Species (24): A. bulla – A. carabus – A. catherinae – A. danai – A. elegans – A. elioti – A. galapagensis – A. gibbesii – A. groeningi – A. holthuisi – A. lucasia – A. marquisiana – A. microps – A. occultus – A. okinawaensis – A. paretii – A. speciosa – A. steinitzi – A. symmysta – A. thurstoni – †A. asymmetrica – †A. cuisiana – †A. hahnae – †A. turritellacola
Name
Albunea Weber, 1795
Type species: A. symmysta (Linnaeus, 1758)
Albunea carabus
References
Boyko, C.B. 2002: A worldwide revision of the recent and fossil sand crabs of the Albuneidae Stimpson and Blepharipodidae, new family (Crustacea, Decapoda, Anomura, Hippoidea). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, (272) DOI: 10.1206/0003-0090(2002)272<0001:AWROTR>2.0.CO;2
Marimuthu, P., Kumaralingam, S., Jayara, V.K., Equbal, J. & Ganesh, T. 2015. First record of Albunea occulta (Boyko) (Crustacea: Decapoda: Albuneidae) from the Andaman Islands, India. Zootaxa 4027(1): 135–139. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4027.1.7. Preview (PDF) Reference page.
Links
Boyko, C.; Türkay, M. (2011). Albunea Weber, 1795. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=106839 on 2012-01-11
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Nomenclator Zoologicus
Albunea is a genus of mole crab within the Albuneidae. Little is known about this group's biology. A. groeningi is named after Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons.[2]
The genus Albunea contains the following species:[3]
Albunea asymmetrica (Müller, 1979) †
Albunea bulla Boyko, 2002
Albunea carabus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Albunea catherinae Boyko, 2002
Albunea cuisiana Beschin & De Angeli, 1984 †
Albunea danai Boyko, 1999
Albunea elegans A. Milne-Edwards & Bouvier, 1898
Albunea elioti Benedict, 1904
Albunea galapagensis Boyko, 2002
Albunea gibbesii Stimpson, 1859
Albunea groeningi Boyko, 2002
Albunea hahnae Blow & Manning, 1996 †
Albunea holthuisi Boyko & Harvey, 1999
Albunea lucasia de Saussure, 1853
Albunea marquisiana Boyko, 2000
Albunea microps Miers, 1878
Albunea occulta Boyko, 2002
Albunea okinawaensis Osawa & Fujita, 2007
Albunea paretii Guérin-Méneville, 1853
Albunea speciosa Dana, 1852
Albunea steinitzi Holthuis, 1958
Albunea symmysta (Linnaeus, 1758)
Albunea thurstoni Henderson, 1893
Albunea turritellacola Fraaije, van Bakel & Jagt, 2008 †
References
"Albunea". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved November 3, 2010.
"My True Love Gave To Me … A Bat Species!". CBS News. December 9, 2008.
Chris Boyko & Michael Türkay (2010). "Albunea Weber, 1795". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved November 3, 2010.
Further reading
Christopher B. Boyko (2000). "The Hippoidea (Decapoda, Anomura) of the Marquises Islands, with description of a new species of Albunea" (PDF). Zoosystema. 22 (1): 107–116. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-12. Retrieved 2009-12-10.
Michel E. Henrickx & Alan W. Harvey (1998). "Checklist of Anomuran Crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda) from the Eastern Tropical Pacific" (PDF). Belgian Journal of Zoology. 129 (2): 363–389.[permanent dead link]
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