Albuneidae Temporal range:
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Order: | Decapoda |
Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
Infraorder: | Anomura |
Superfamily: | Hippoidea |
Family: |
Albuneidae Stimpson, 1858 |
Genera [1] | |
Albuneidae is a little-known family of specialized burrowing sand crabs. There are 50 extant species as well as nine fossil species that have been described. [1] Fossil specimens have been described from the Cretaceous, [2] Miocene [3] and Oligocene. [4]
Albuneidae Temporal range:
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Order: | Decapoda |
Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
Infraorder: | Anomura |
Superfamily: | Hippoidea |
Family: |
Albuneidae Stimpson, 1858 |
Genera [1] | |
Albuneidae is a little-known family of specialized burrowing sand crabs. There are 50 extant species as well as nine fossil species that have been described. [1] Fossil specimens have been described from the Cretaceous, [2] Miocene [3] and Oligocene. [4]