Polychelidae

Polycheles typhlops

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Polychelida

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: Polychelida

Familia: Polychelidae
Genera: Antarcticheles – Cardus – Dianecheles – Homeryon – Neopolycheles – Pentacheles – Polycheles – Stereomastis – Willemoesia

Name

Polychelidae Wood-Mason, 1874

• Type genus: Polycheles Heller, 1862

References

Primary references

• Wood-Mason, J. 1874. [On Blind Crustaceans]. Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 1874: 180–181. BHL

Additional 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. PDF. Reference page. 
• Ahyong, S.T. 2012: Polychelid lobsters (Decapoda: Polychelida: Polychelidae) collected by the CIDARIS expeditions off Central Queensland, with a summary of Australian and New Zealand distributions. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum - Nature 56(1): 1–8. Reference page. 
• Forest, J. 1987. Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM 3. Les Pylochelidae ou "Pagures symétriques" (Crustacea Coenobitoidea). Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. Série A, Zoologie 137. full article (PDF). Reference page. 

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