A Worldwide Revision Of The Recent And Fossil Sand Crabs Of The Albuneidae Stimpson And Blepharipodidae, New Family (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Hippoidea)
Author
BOYKO, CHRISTOPHER B.
text
Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
2002
2002-10-24
2002
272
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http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1206/0003-0090%282002%29272%3C0001%3AAWROTR%3E2.0.CO%3B2
journal article
10.1206/0003-0090(2002)272<0001:AWROTR>2.0.CO;2
0003-0090
5396799
LEPIDOPINAE
,
new subfamily
TYPE
GENUS:
Lepidopa
Stimpson, 1858
, designated herein.
INCLUDED GENERA:
Lepidopa
Stimpson, 1858
;
Austrolepidopa
Efford and Haig, 1968
;
Leucolepidopa
Efford, 1969
;
Paraleucolepidopa
Calado, 1996
.
DIAGNOSIS: Carapace front broad, unarmed or weakly toothed; outerocular spines present (except in
Lepidopa haigae
); hepatic anterolateral spine present; branchiostegite unarmed. Rostrum present. Distal peduncular segment flattened; cornea absent. Antennule segment I unarmed; dorsal flagellum with 46–250 articles, ventral flagellum with 0–4 articles. Antenna acicle present, short; flagellum with three to nine articles. Maxilliped III carpal projection long; crista dentata absent. Pereopod I dactylus dorsal margin smooth; propodus cutting edge smooth; distodorsal carpal spine absent. Pereopod III male pore present (except in
Lepidopa
cali fornica
). Abdomen with pleura on somites II–V. Telson sexual dimorphism weak.
REMARKS: Although
Lepidopidae
Stammer (1936)
(
Crustacea
: Mysidacea) is a senior familylevel homonym of this new taxon, that name was placed on the ‘‘Official index of rejected and invalid familygroup names in zoology’’ as name no. 398 (a family name based on a junior homonym of a genus) (
ICZN, 1964
).
The genera that comprise this new subfamily have always been considered to form a natural grouping within the
Albuneidae
(Efford and Haig, 1968;
Efford, 1969
), but that group was never formally named. The only genus that was questionably referred to this group was
Zygopa
(
Holthuis, 1961
)
, but as shown herein, that genus is allied to
Albunea
rather than to
Lepidopa
.