Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
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: Blepharipodidae
Genus: Blepharipoda
Species: B. doelli – B. liberata – B. occidentalis – B. spinosa
Name
Blepharipoda Randall, 1840
Type species: Blepharipoda occidentalis Randall, 1840
References
Randall, J.W., 1840. Catalogue of the Crustacea brought by Thomas Nuttall and J. K. Townsend, from the west coast of North America and the Sandwich Islands, with descriptions of such species as are apparently new, among which are included several species of different localities, previously existing in the collection of the Academy. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 8(1): 106–147.
Boyko, Christopher 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: 1–396.
Blepharipoda occidentalis
Blepharipoda is a genus of mole crabs, containing the following species:[1]
Blepharipoda doelloi Schmitt, 1942
Blepharipoda liberata Shen, 1949
Blepharipoda occidentalis Randall, 1840
Blepharipoda spinosa (H. Milne-Edwards & Lucas, 1841)
Blepharipoda liberata is harvested for food in China and has been described as "delicious."[2]
References
Chris Boyko (2010). "Blepharipoda Randall, 1840". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved August 3, 2010.
Zhang X, Cheng S, Zhang M. (2020). "Analysis of the influence of the morphological characteristics on the weight characteristics of Blepharipoda liberate (sic) Shen". Journal of Fishery Sciences of China. 27: 62. doi:10.3724/SP.J.1118.2020.19109 (inactive 2023-02-28).
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