Blepharipodidae

Life-forms

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
Genera: Blepharipoda - Lophomastix
Name

Blapharipodidae Boyko, 2002

Type genus: Blepharipoda Randall, 1840
Vernacular names
English: Spiny sand crabs
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)
Boyko, C.B.; Harvey, A.W. 2009: Phylogenetic systematics and biogeography of the sand crab families Albuneidae and Blepharipodidae (Crustacea: Anomura: Hippoidea). Invertebrate systematics, 23: 1–18.

Blepharipodidae is a family of sand crabs (Hippoidea), comprising the two genera Blepharipoda and Lophomastix.[1] They are distinguished from the other families in the superfamily Hippoidea by the form of the gills, which are trichobranchiate (filamentous) in Blepharipodidae, but phyllobranchiate (lamellar) in Albuneidae and Hippidae.[2][3] Fossils belonging to the genus Lophomastix have been found in rocks dating back to the Eocene.[4][5]
References

Christopher Boyko (2010). "Blepharipodidae". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved March 18, 2012.
Christopher B. Boyko (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. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2002)272<0001:AWROTR>2.0.CO;2. hdl:2246/436. S2CID 83981557.
Patsy A. McLaughlin, Rafael Lemaitre & Ulf Sorhannus (2007). "Hermit crab phylogeny: a reappraisal and its "fall-out"" (PDF). Journal of Crustacean Biology. 27 (1): 97–115. doi:10.1651/S-2675.1.
Torrey Nyborg & Francisco J. Vega (2008). "Three new fossil species of Lophomastix (Decapoda: Blepharipodidae) from the Cenozoic of Washington". Journal of Crustacean Biology. 28 (2): 361–369. doi:10.1651/0278-0372(2008)028[0361:TNFSOL]2.0.CO;2. S2CID 198968596.
Carrie E. Schweitzer & Christopher B. Boyko (2000). "First report of the genus Lophomastix Benedict, 1904 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Albuneidae) in the fossil record and a reappraisal of the status of Blepharipoda brucei Rathbun, 1926". Journal of Paleontology. 74 (4): 631–635. doi:10.1666/0022-3360(2000)074<0631:FROTGL>2.0.CO;2. JSTOR 1306943. S2CID 86363175.