Albunea (crustacean)
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Genus: | Albunea |
Albunea is a genus of mole crab within the Albuneidae. Little is known about this group's biology. A. groeningi is named after Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons.[2]
The genus Albunea contains the following species:[3]
- Albunea asymmetrica (Müller, 1979) †
- Albunea bulla Boyko, 2002
- Albunea carabus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Albunea catherinae Boyko, 2002
- Albunea cuisiana Beschin & De Angeli, 1984 †
- Albunea danai Boyko, 1999
- Albunea elegans A. Milne-Edwards & Bouvier, 1898
- Albunea elioti Benedict, 1904
- Albunea galapagensis Boyko, 2002
- Albunea gibbesii Stimpson, 1859
- Albunea groeningi Boyko, 2002
- Albunea hahnae Blow & Manning, 1996 †
- Albunea holthuisi Boyko & Harvey, 1999
- Albunea lucasia de Saussure, 1853
- Albunea marquisiana Boyko, 2000
- Albunea microps Miers, 1878
- Albunea occulta Boyko, 2002
- Albunea okinawaensis Osawa & Fujita, 2007
- Albunea paretii Guérin-Méneville, 1853
- Albunea speciosa Dana, 1852
- Albunea steinitzi Holthuis, 1958
- Albunea symmysta (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Albunea thurstoni Henderson, 1893
- Albunea turritellacola Fraaije, van Bakel & Jagt, 2008 †
References
[edit]- ^ "Albunea". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved November 3, 2010.
- ^ "My True Love Gave To Me … A Bat Species!". CBS News. December 9, 2008. Archived from the original on December 11, 2008.
- ^ Chris Boyko & Michael Türkay (2010). "Albunea Weber, 1795". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved November 3, 2010.
Further reading
[edit]- Christopher B. Boyko (2000). "The Hippoidea (Decapoda, Anomura) of the Marquises Islands, with description of a new species of Albunea" (PDF). Zoosystema. 22 (1): 107–116. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-12. Retrieved 2009-12-10.
- Michel E. Henrickx & Alan W. Harvey (1998). "Checklist of Anomuran Crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda) from the Eastern Tropical Pacific" (PDF). Belgian Journal of Zoology. 129 (2): 363–389.[permanent dead link]