Plagusiidae

Plagusiidae
Percnon gibbesi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Infraorder: Brachyura
Superfamily: Grapsoidea
Family: Plagusiidae
Dana, 1851 [1]
Genera

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Plagusiidae is a family of crabs. It was formerly treated as a subfamily of the family Grapsidae, but has since been considered sufficiently distinct to be a family in its own right.[2]

Six genera are included in the family:[3]

References

  1. "Plagusiidae Dana, 1851". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved April 4, 2011.
  2. Peter K. L. Ng, Danièle Guinot & Peter J. F. Davie (2008). "Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 17: 1–286.
  3. Peter Davie & Charles Fransen (2012). "Plagusiidae". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved December 11, 2012.
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