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Kiwaidae

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
FAMILY
Published in
Macpherson, Enrique, William Jones, & and Michel Segonzac. (2005). A new squat lobster family of Galatheoidea (Crustacea, Decapoda, Anomura) from the hydrothermal vents of the Pacific-Antarctic Ridge. Zoosystema, Vol. 27, No. 4.

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Arthropoda
class
Malacostraca
order
Decapoda
family
Kiwaidae

Name

Homonyms
Kiwaidae
Common names
yeti crabs in English
yeti crabs in English
yeti lobsters in English
yeti lobsters in English

Bibliographic References

  1. Brands, S. J. (compiler). (1989-2005). Systema Naturae 2000. Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2006 version). Originally available online at http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/; for current information, refer http://taxonomicon.taxonomy.nl/ProjectDescription.aspx .
  2. 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. <em>Raffles Bulletin of Zoology.</em> supplement 21: 1-109.
  3. 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. <em>Raffles Bulletin of Zoology.</em> supplement 21: 1-109.
  4. Lee, Sang-Hui, Won-Kyung Lee, and Yong-Jin Won, 2016: A new species of yeti crab, genus Kiwa Macpherson, Jones and Segonzac, 2005 (Decapoda: Anomura: Kiwaidae), from a hydrothermal vent on the Australian-Antarctic Ridge. Journal of Crustacean Biology, vol. 36, no. 2. 238-247.
  5. Macpherson, E.; Jones, W.; Segonzac, M. (2005). A new squat lobster family of Galatheoidea (Crustacea, Decapoda, Anomura) from the hydrothermal vents of the Pacific-Antarctic Ridge. <em>Zoosystema.</em> 27(4): 709-723.
  6. Macpherson, Enrique, William Jones, and Michel Segonzac, 2005: A new squat lobster family of Galatheoidea (Crustacea, Decapoda, Anomura) from the hydrothermal vents of the Pacific-Antarctic Ridge. Zoosystema, vol. 27, no. 4. 709-723.
  7. Poore, various sources
  8. Schnabel, K. E., S. T. Ahyong, and E. W. Maas, 2010: Galatheoidea are not monophyletic - Molecular and morphological phylogeny of the squat lobsters (Decapoda: Anomura) with recognition of a new superfamily. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, vol. 58. 157-168.
  9. WoRMS (Mar 2013)
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