Planes (genus)

Planes
Temporal range: Middle Miocene–Recent
Planes minutus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Infraorder: Brachyura
Family: Grapsidae
Genus: Planes
Bowdich, 1825
Species
  • Planes minutus (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Planes marinus Rathbun, 1914
  • Planes major (MacLeay, 1838)

Planes is a genus of crabs in the family Grapsidae that currently comprises three extant species:[1] Planes minutus (Linnaeus, 1758), Planes marinus Rathbun, 1914, and Planes major (=cyaneus) (MacLeay, 1838). A further fossil species is known[2] from the Middle Miocene of the Caucasus.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Peter K. L. Ng, Danièle Guinot & Peter J. F. Davie (2008). "Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 17: 1–286.
  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.
  3. ↑ Andreas Brösing (2008). "A reconstruction of an evolutionary scenario for the Brachyura (Decapoda) in the context of the Cretaceous–Tertiary boundary" (PDF). Crustaceana. 81 (3): 271–287. doi:10.1163/156854008783564091.


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