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Blepharipodidae

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Family of crustaceans

Blepharipodidae
Temporal range: Eocene–Recent PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Anomura
Superfamily: Hippoidea
Family: Blepharipodidae
Boyko, 2002
Genera

Blepharipodidae is a family of sand crabs (Hippoidea), comprising the two genera Blepharipoda and Lophomastix. They are distinguished from the other families in the superfamily Hippoidea by the form of the gills, which are trichobranchiate (filamentous) in Blepharipodidae, but phyllobranchiate (lamellar) in Albuneidae and Hippidae. Fossils belonging to the genus Lophomastix have been found in rocks dating back to the Eocene.

References

  1. Christopher Boyko (2010). "Blepharipodidae". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved March 18, 2012.
  2. Christopher B. Boyko (2002). "A worldwide revision of the Recent and fossil sand crabs of the Albuneidae Stimpson and Blepharipodidae, new family (Crustacea, Decapoda, Anomura, Hippoidea)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 272: 1–396. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2002)272<0001:AWROTR>2.0.CO;2. hdl:2246/436. S2CID 83981557.
  3. Patsy A. McLaughlin, Rafael Lemaitre & Ulf Sorhannus (2007). "Hermit crab phylogeny: a reappraisal and its "fall-out"" (PDF). Journal of Crustacean Biology. 27 (1): 97–115. doi:10.1651/S-2675.1.
  4. Torrey Nyborg & Francisco J. Vega (2008). "Three new fossil species of Lophomastix (Decapoda: Blepharipodidae) from the Cenozoic of Washington". Journal of Crustacean Biology. 28 (2): 361–369. doi:10.1651/0278-0372(2008)028[0361:TNFSOL]2.0.CO;2. S2CID 198968596.
  5. Carrie E. Schweitzer & Christopher B. Boyko (2000). "First report of the genus Lophomastix Benedict, 1904 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Albuneidae) in the fossil record and a reappraisal of the status of Blepharipoda brucei Rathbun, 1926". Journal of Paleontology. 74 (4): 631–635. doi:10.1666/0022-3360(2000)074<0631:FROTGL>2.0.CO;2. JSTOR 1306943. S2CID 86363175.
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Blepharipodidae
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