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(Redirected from Tanaochelidae) Genus of crabs

Tanaocheles
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Brachyura
Section: Eubrachyura
Subsection: Heterotremata
Superfamily: Pilumnoidea
Family: Tanaochelidae
Ng & Clark, 2000
Genus: Tanaocheles
Kropp, 1984
Species
  • Tanaocheles bidentata (Nobili 1901)
  • Tanaocheles stenochilus Kropp, 1984

Tanaocheles is a genus of crabs, the only genus in the family Tanaochelidae. It contains two species, T. bidentata and T. stenochilus. The two species were formerly placed in different families, and they were only shown to be related, and placed in a new subfamily (now elevated to the taxonomic rank of family), in 2000.

Tanaocheles bidentata

Originally described as Chlorodius bidentatus, and later called Chlorodiella bidentata, Tanaocheles bidentata was assigned for a long time to the Xanthidae.

Tanaocheles stenochilus

Tanaocheles stenochilus was described in 1989 from material collected in Guam, where it lives among colonies of the stony coral Leptoseris gardineri. It was originally placed in the Trapeziidae.

References

  1. ^ Roy K. Kropp (1984). "Tanaocheles stenochilus, a new genus and species of crab from Guam, Mariana Islands (Brachyura: Xanthidae)" (PDF). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 97 (4): 744–747.
  2. Sammy De Grave; N. Dean Pentcheff; Shane T. Ahyong; et al. (2009). "A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. Suppl. 21: 1–109.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. Peter K. L. Ng & Paul F. Clark (2000). "The Indo-Pacific Pilumnidae XII. On the familial placement of Chlorodiella bidentata (Nobili, 1901) and Tanaocheles stenochilus Kropp, 1984 using adult and larval characters with the establishment of a new subfamily, Tanaochelinae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura)". Journal of Natural History. 34 (2): 207–245. doi:10.1080/002229300299615.
Taxon identifiers
Tanaocheles
Tanaochelidae
Tanaocheleidae
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