Galene (crab)

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Pilumnoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Superclassis: Multicrustacea Classis: Malacostraca Subclassis: Eumalacostraca Superordo: Eucarida Ordo: Decapoda Subordo: Pleocyemata Infraordo: Brachyura Sectio: Eubrachyura Subsectio: Heterotremata Superfamilia: Pilumnoidea

Familia: Galenidae
Genus: Galene
Species (6): P. bispinosa –P. granulifera –P. stipata –P. obscura –P. litoralistemp –P. dashtbani –

Name

Galene De Haan, 1833

Occurrence

Southwest Asia; India, Bangladesh, Thailand, China, Australia, New Zealand and Iran (fossil)

Fossil record

Fossils of Galene are found in marine strata from the Langhian to Quaternary (age range: from 15.97 to 0.012 million years ago.). Fossils are known from Iran, Malaysia, New Zealand and Taiwan. Recently, a new species of this crab named Galene dashtbani one of the oldest descendants of this genus, which is about 15 million years old, has been identified from Iran.

References

Alcock, A.W. 1898. Materials for a carcinological fauna of India. No. 3. The Brachyura Cyclometopa. Part I. The family Xanthidae. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 67(2): 67–233. BHL Reference page.

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