Galene (crab)

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Pilumnoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa 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.