Porcellanidae Haworth, 1825

Ahyong, Shane T., Baba, Keiji, Macpherson, Enrique & Poore, Gary C. B., 2010, A new classification of the Galatheoidea (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura), Zootaxa 2676 (1), pp. 57-68 : 64

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scientific name	Porcellanidae Haworth, 1825
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Diagnosis. Rostrum well developed to obsolete, if well-developed, broad, subtriangular, flattened. Supraocular spines present or absent. Carapace (excluding rostrum) longer than wide to wider than long; dorsal surface smooth or variously ornamented with faint striae or tubercles. Tailfan well developed, folded against preceding somite, telson distinctly subdivided into 5 or 7 plates. Eyes with well-developed cornea. Antennal peduncle directed laterally or posteriorly. Maxilliped 1 exopod flagellum well developed. Maxilliped 3 operculiform; ischium and merus elongate, broad, expanded mesially; epipod absent. Chelipeds flattened.

Remarks. De Grave et al. (2009) provide a checklist of extant and fossil porcellanid genera and Osawa & McLaughlin (2010) list the extant porcellanid species.

References

De Grave, S., Pentcheff, N. D., Ahyong, S. T., Chan, T. - Y., Crandall, K. A., Dworschak, P. C., Felder, D. L., Feldmann, R. M., Fransen, C. H. J. M., Goulding, L. Y. D., Lemaitre, R., Low, M. E. Y., Martin, J. W., Ng, P. K. L., Schweitzer, C. E., Tan, S. H., Tshudy, D. & Wetzer, R. (2009) A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod Crustaceans. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Supplement 21, 1 - 109.

Haworth, A. H. (1825) A new binary arrangement of the macrurous Crustacea. The Philosophical Magazine and Journal, 65, 183 - 184.

Osawa, M. & McLaughlin, P. A. (2010) Annotated checklist of anomuran decapod crustaceans of the world (exclusive of the Kiwaoidea and families Chirostylidae and Galatheidae of the Galatheoidea) Part II - Porcellanidae. In: Low, M. E. Y. & Tan, S. H. (Eds), Checklists of anomuran decapod crustaceans of the world (exclusive of the Kiwaoidea and families Chirostylidae and Galatheidae of the Galatheoidea) and marine lobsters of the world. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Supplement 23, 109 - 129.