Family of crabs
Lophopanopeus bellus , Black-clawed crab, San Luis Obispo County, California The Panopeidae are a family containing 26 genera of morphologically similar crabs , often known as "mud crabs". Their centers of diversity are the Atlantic Ocean and eastern Pacific Ocean.
Distribution
Most members of the family Panopeidae live in the Atlantic Ocean or eastern Pacific Ocean . Only one species occurs in Australian waters – Homoioplax haswelli [ 2]
Ecology
The various genera of the Panopeidae are morphologically similar, partly as a result of many instances of convergent evolution to similar habitats and food preferences.[ 3]
Crabs of the family Panopeidae are all free-living (not commensal or parasitic ),[ 2] [ 3] other organisms ). They burrow into the sediment and feed on a variety of marine invertebrates.[ 3]
Genera
The World Register of Marine Species lists these subfamilies and genera:[ 1]
Eucratopsinae Stimpson, 1871
Chasmophora Rathbun, 1914 Cycloplax Guinot, 1969 Cyrtoplax Rathbun, 1914 Eucratopsis Smith, 1869 Glyptoplax Smith, 1870 Homoioplax Rathbun, 1914 Malacoplax Guinot, 1969 Odontoplax Garth, 1986 Panoplax Stimpson, 1871 Prionoplax H. Milne-Edwards, 1852 Robertsella Guinot, 1969 Tetraplax Rathbun, 1901 Thalassoplax Guinot, 1969
Panopeinae Ortmann, 1893
Acantholobulus Felder & Martin, 2003 Dyspanopeus Martin & Abele, 1986 Eurypanopeus A. Milne-Edwards, 1880 Eurytium Stimpson, 1859 Hexapanopeus Rathbun, 1898 Lithopanopeus Felder & Thoma, 2020 [ 4] Lophopanopeus Rathbun, 1898 Lophoxanthus A. Milne-Edwards, 1879 Metopocarcinus Stimpson, 1860 Neopanope A. Milne-Edwards, 1880 Panopeus H. Milne-Edwards, 1834 Rhithropanopeus Rathbun, 1898 Tetraxanthus Rathbun, 1898
References
^ a b Davie, P. (2015). "Panopeidae Ortmann, 1893" . WoRMS . World Register of Marine Species . Retrieved 2015-07-03 . ^ a b c P. J. F. Davie (2002). "Panopeidae". Crustacea: Malocostraca: Eucarida (Part 2), Decapoda: Anomura, Brachyura CSIRO Publishing . pp. 372– 374. ISBN 978-0-643-06792-9 ^ a b c C. D. Schubart, J. E. Neigel & D. L. Felder (2000). "Molecular phylogeny of mud crabs (Brachyura: Panopeidae) from the northwestern Atlantic and the role of morphological statis and convergence" (PDF ) . Marine Biology 137 (1): 11– 18. doi :10.1007/s002270000325 . ^ Felder, Darryl L.; Thoma, Brent P. (2020-09-03). "A new genus and species of mud crab (Crustacea, Brachyura, Panopeidae) from shoreline waters of the western Gulf of Mexico" . Zootaxa . 4845 (3): 425– 435. doi :10.11646/zootaxa.4845.3.7 ISSN 1175-5334 .
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