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Trapeziidae  Miers, 1886
Taxonomic Serial No.: 621508

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Family  
  Synonym(s):    
  Common Name(s): coral crabs [English]
  
    guard crabs [English]
  
       
  Taxonomic Status:    
  Current Standing: valid  
       
  Data Quality Indicators:    
  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: unknown   
  Latest Record Review: 2004   
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomProtostomia   
          SuperphylumEcdysozoa   
             PhylumArthropoda  – Artrópode, arthropodes, arthropods  
                SubphylumCrustacea Brünnich, 1772 – crustacés, crustáceo, crustaceans  
                   ClassMalacostraca Latreille, 1802  
                      SubclassEumalacostraca Grobben, 1892  
                         SuperorderEucarida Calman, 1904 – camarão, caranguejo, ermitão, lagosta, siri  
                            OrderDecapoda Latreille, 1802 – crabs, crayfishes, lobsters, prawns, shrimp, crabes, crevettes, écrevisses, homards  
                               SuborderPleocyemata Burkenroad, 1963  
                                  InfraorderBrachyura Latreille, 1802 – short-tailed crabs, true crabs  
                                     SuperfamilyXanthoidea MacLeay, 1838  
                                        FamilyTrapeziidae Miers, 1886 – coral crabs, guard crabs  
    Direct Children:  
                                           Genus Domecia Eydoux and Souleyet, 1842  
                                           Genus Garthiope Guinot, 1990  
                                           Genus Jonesius Sankarankutty, 1962  
                                           Genus Trapezia Latreille, 1825  
       

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  Source: American Fisheries Society Special Publication 31, pre-press (version 18-May-04)  
  Acquired: 2004   
  Notes: McLaughlin et al. 2005. Common and Scientific Names of Aquatic Invertebrates from the United States and Canada: Crustaceans. American Fisheries Society Special Publication 31   
  Reference for: Trapeziidae, coral crabs [English]   
       
  Publication(s):    
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Martin, Joel W., and George E. Davis  
  Publication Date: 2001   
  Article/Chapter Title: An Updated Classification of the Recent Crustacea   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Natural History Museum of Los Angeles, Science Series 39   
  Page(s): 124   
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  ISBN/ISSN: 1-891276-27-1   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Trapeziidae   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Nizinski, Martha S.  
  Publication Date: 2003   
  Article/Chapter Title: Annotated checklist of decapod crustaceans of Atlantic coastal and continental shelf waters of the United States   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, vol. 116, no. 1   
  Page(s): 96-157   
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  ISBN/ISSN: 0006-324X   
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  Reference for: Trapeziidae   
       

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 Comments
       
  Comment: Trapeziidae Miers 1886 was a senior homonym of a mollusk family originally spelled the same way; the spelling of the mollusk family was changed by action of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature to Trapezidae Lamy 1920. See ICZN, 1990, Bull. Zool. Nomencl. 47(3):229, 230  
 

 

    

 
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