Blepharipodidae

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Hippoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea 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.