Dromioidea
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| Dromioidea Temporal range: Danian–Recent |
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| Dromia personata, family Dromiidae | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Crustacea |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Infraorder: | Brachyura |
| Section: | Dromiacea |
| Superfamily: | Dromioidea De Haan, 1833 |
| Families [1] | |
Dromioidea is a superfamily of crabs mostly found in Madagascar. The earliest fossils attributable to the Dromioidea date from the Danian.[2]
[edit] References
- ^ Sammy De Grave, N. Dean Pentcheff, Shane T. Ahyong et al. (2009). "A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans". Raffles Bulletin of Zoology Suppl. 21: 1–109. http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s21/s21rbz1-109.pdf.
- ^ Andreas Brösing (2008). "A reconstruction of an evolutionary scenario for the Brachyura (Decapoda) in the context of the Cretaceous–Tertiary boundary". Crustaceana 81 (3): 271–287. doi:10.1163/156854008783564091. http://decapoda.nhm.org/pdfs/30458/30458.pdf.
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