Dromia

Dromia
Dromia personata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Infraorder: Brachyura
Family: Dromiidae
Genus: Dromia
Weber, 1795
Type species
Cancer personatus

Dromia is a genus of crabs in the family Dromiidae. It contains 6 extant species:[1]

  • Dromia bollorei Forest, 1974
  • Dromia dormia (Linnaeus, 1763)
  • Dromia erythropus (George Edwards, 1771)
  • Dromia marmorea Forest, 1974
  • Dromia nodosa A. Milne-Edwards & Bouvier, 1898
  • Dromia personata (Linnaeus, 1758)

Two further species are known only from fossils.[2]

References

  1. Peter Davie & Michael Türkay (2011). "Dromia Weber, 1795". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved November 28, 2011.
  2. Sammy De Grave; N. Dean Pentcheff; Shane T. Ahyong; et al. (2009). "A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. Suppl. 21: 1–109. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-06.


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