Varunidae
Taxonavigation
[edit]| Taxonavigation: Grapsoidea |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Varunidae
Subfamiliae:
Asthenognathinae –
Cyclograpsinae –
Gaeticinae –
Pinnotherelinae –
Schubartinae –
Thalassograpsinae –
Varuninae
Overview of genera:
Acmaeopleura –
Asthenognathus –
Austrohelice –
Brachynotus –
Chasmagnathus –
Cyclograpsus –
Cyrtograpsus –
Eriocheir –
Gaetice –
Gopkittisak –
Grapsodius –
Helicana –
Helice –
Helograpsus –
Hemigrapsus –
Metaplax –
Noarograpsus –
Neoeriocheir –
Neohelice –
Orcovita –
Otognathon –
Paragrapsus –
Parahelice –
Parapyxidognathus –
Platyeriocheir –
Pseudogaetice –
Pseudograpsus –
Pseudohelice –
Ptychognathus –
Pyxidognathus –
Scutumara –
Sestrostoma –
Tetragrapsus –
Thalassograpsus –
Utica –
Varuna
Name
[edit]Varunidae H. Milne Edwards, 1853: 175 (as 'Varunacæa')
- Type genus: Varuna H. Milne Edwards in Bory de Saint Vincent, 1830
Synonymy
[edit]- Brankocleistostomidae
References
[edit]Primary references
[edit]- Milne-Edwards, H. 1853. Mémoire sur la famille des Ocypodiens. Suite (1). Annales des sciences naturelles. Zoologie ser.3 t.19–20: 163–228; pls. 6–11. BHL Reference page.
Additional references
[edit]- Davie, P.J.F.; Ng, N.K. 2007: Two new subfamilies of Varunidae (Crustacea: Brachyura), with description of two new genera. Raffles bulletin of zoology, supplement (16): 257–272.
- Naruse, T. 2015: Description of a new genus and a new species of gaeticine crab (Crustacea: Brachyura: Varunidae) from the Ryukyu Islands, and a review of Acmaeopleura Stimpson, 1858, and Sestrostoma Davie & N.K. Ng, 2007. Zootaxa 3925(2): 211–228. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3925.2.4. Reference page.
- Ng, P.K.L. 2012: The systematic status of two enigmatic ocypodoid crabs, "Paracleistostoma" dentatum Tesch, 1918, and "Paracleistostoma" fossulum Barnard, 1955 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura). Zootaxa, 3206: 58–68. Preview
- Shih, H-T., Hsu, J-W., Li, J-J., Ng, N.K. & Lee, J-H. 2020. The identities of three species of Parahelice Sakai, Türkay & Yang, 2006 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Varunidae) from the western Pacific, based on morphological and molecular evidence. Zootaxa 4728(2): 249–265. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4728.2.6
Reference page. - Shih, H-T., Hsu, J-W., Wong, K.J.H. & Ng, N.K. 2019. Review of the mudflat varunid crab genus Metaplax (Crustacea, Brachyura, Varunidae) from East Asia and northern Vietnam. ZooKeys, 877: 1–29. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.877.38300
Reference page.