Inachidae

Inachus dorsettensis

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Majoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Superphylum: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Mandibulata Cladus: Pancrustacea Superclassis: Multicrustacea Classis: Malacostraca Subclassis: Eumalacostraca Superordo: Eucarida Ordo: Decapoda Subordo: Pleocyemata Infraordo: Brachyura Sectio: Eubrachyura Subsectio: Heterotremata Superfamilia: Majoidea

Familia: Inachidae
Subfamiliae: Eucinetopinae – Inachinae – Podochelinae

Overview of genera

Achaeopsis - Achaeus - Anomalothir - Bothromaia - Calypsachaeus - Camposcia - Capartiella - Chalaroacheus - Chorinachus - Cyrtomaia - Dorhynchus - Dumea - Encephalloides - Ephippias - Ergasticus - Erileptus - Eucinetops - Eurypodius - Grypacheus - Inachus - Litosus - Macrocheira - Macropodia - Metoporhaphis - Oncinopus - Parapleistacantha - Paratymolus - Physacheus - Platymaia - Pleistacantha - Pleistacanthoides - Podochela - Prosphorachaeus - Pseudocollodes - Rhinospinosa - Sunipea - Trichoplatus - Vitjazmaia

Name

Inachidae MacLeay, 1838: 55, 56 (as 'Inachina')

• Type genus: Inachus Weber, 1795

Synonymy

• Anomalopodinae Stimpson, 1871
• Chorinachini Števčić, 2005
• Encephaloidini Števčić, 2005
• Ephippiini Števčić, 2005
• Grypachaeini Števčić, 2005 ·
• Microrhynchinae Miers, 1879
• Oncinopodidae Stimpson, 1857
• Sunipeini Števčić, 2005
• Trichoplatini Števčić, 2005

References

Primary references

• Macleay, W.S. 1838. On the Brachyurous Decapod Crustacea. Brought from the Cape by Dr. Smith. In: Smith, A. (ed.), Illustrations of the Zoology of South Africa; consisting chiefly of Figures and Descriptions of the Objects of Natural History Collected during an Expedition into the Interior of South Africa, in the Years 1834, 1835, and 1836; fitted out by “The Cape of Good Hope Association for Exploring Central Africa”. Published under the Authority of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, London, pp. i–iv + 53–71, Pls. 2, 3. BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• Guinot, D. 2012. Remarks on Inachoididae Dana, 1851, with the description of a new genus and the resurrection of Stenorhynchinae Dana, 1851, and recognition of the inachid subfamily Podochelinae Neumann, 1878 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Majoidea). Zootaxa 3416: 22–40. Preview Reference page. 
• Ng, P.K.L., Ravinesh, R. & Ravichandran, S. 2017. A new large oregoniid spider crab of the genus Pleistacantha Miers, 1879, from the Bay of Bengal, India (Crustacea, Brachyura, Majoidea). ZooKeys 716: 127—146. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.716.21349. Reference page. 
• Santana, W. 2015. A new species of Sunipea Griffin & Tranter, 1986 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Inachidae) and a redescription of Sunipea indicus (Alcock, 1895). Zootaxa 4052(3): 383–393. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4052.3.8. Preview (PDF) Reference page. 
• Xu, T., Zeng, C-S. & Hutson, K.S. 2019. Morphological descriptions of the larval and first juvenile stages of the decorator crab Camposcia retusa (Latreille, 1829) from laboratory-reared material. Zootaxa 4577(2): 295–315. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4577.2.4 Reference page. 

Links

• CU*STAR Version 6.0[1] (as Inachinae)

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