Hymenosomatidae Explained

Hymenosomatidae is a family of crabs with some 110 described species in 24 genera.^{[1] [2]} The following genera are placed in the Hymenosomatidae:^[3]

• Amarinus
• Apechocinus
• Cancrocaeca
• Crustaenia
• Culexisoma
• Elamena

• Elamenopsis

• Guaplax

• Halicarcinides

• Halicarcinus

• Halimena
• Hymenicoides
• Hymenosoma

• Limnopilos
• Lucascinus
• Micas

• Neohymenicus
• Neorhynchoplax

• Nasutoplax
• Odiomaris
• Rhynchoplax
• Stimpsoplax
• Sulaplax

• Trigonoplax

External links

• Australian Government Department of Environment & Heritage

Notes and References

1. . 1739 . 21–40 . 2008 . Two new genera and two new species of troglobitic false spider crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Hymenosomatidae) from Indonesia, with notes on Cancrocaeca Ng, 1991 . Tohru Naruse . Peter K. L. Ng . Daniele Guinot .
2. Poore, G.C.B.. Guinot, D.. Komai, T.. Naruse, T.. 2016. Reappraisal of species attributed to Halicarcinus White, 1846 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Hymenosomatidae) with diagnosis of four new genera and one new species from New Ireland, Papua New Guinea. Zootaxa. 4093. 480–514. 10.11646/zootaxa.4093.4.2.
3. . 2009 . Suppl. 21 . 1–109 . A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans . Sammy De Grave . N. Dean Pentcheff . Shane T. Ahyong . etal . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110606064728/http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s21/s21rbz1-109.pdf . 2011-06-06 .