Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Eucarida > Order Decapoda > Suborder Pleocyemata > Infraorder Brachyura > Kingdom Eubrachyura > Kingdom Heterotremata > Superfamily Majoidea

Inachidae MacLeay, 1838

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Achaeus Leach, 1817
Dorhynchus Thomson, 1873
Ergasticus A. Milne-Edwards, 1882
Inachus Weber, 1795
Macropodia Leach, 1814
Stenorhynchus Lamarck, 1818

Vernaculars (+) (-)

 English-United States: spider crabs

Literature

basis of record

ITIS database

additional source

Martin, J.W.; Davis, G.E. (2001). An updated classification of the recent Crustacea. Science Series, 39. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: Los Angeles, CA (USA). vii, 123 pp.

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Citation

Davie, P. (2014). Inachidae MacLeay, 1838. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:148427

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Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


marine

Importance

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Last modified

2009-12-15 by Peter Davie

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