| Albunea | |
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| Albunea carabus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Anomura |
| Family: | Albuneidae |
| Subfamily: | Albuneinae |
| Genus: | Albunea Weber, 1795 |
Albunea is a genus of mole crab within the family Albuneidae. Little is known about this group's biology. A. groeningi is named after Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons.
The genus Albunea contains the following species:
- 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
- "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
- 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.
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