| Limnopilos | |
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| Limnopilos naiyanetri, the type species of Limnopilos | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Brachyura |
| Family: | Hymenosomatidae |
| Subfamily: | Hymenosomatinae |
| Genus: | Limnopilos Chuang & Ng, 1991 |
| Type species | |
| Limnopilos naiyanetri | |
Limnopilos is a genus of small hymenosomatid crabs endemic to Southeast Asia. The genus was described by Christina Chuang and Peter Ng in 1991, who identified the new species Limnopilos naiyanetri and distinguished it from the closely related genus Hymenicoides. Its true taxonomic classification was debated for several years, but in 2007 the discovery of a new species of crab in this genus solidified the distinction between Limnopilos and Hymenicoides. Many aspects of the genus Limnopilos are still poorly understood. Their ecology and natural history have not been studied in detail, and their reproductive cycle remains mysterious.
L. naiyanetri is the type species of this genus. The genus name Limnopilos refers to the fact that animals of this genus inhabit freshwater and are hairy.[1]
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- ^ Chuang, Christina; Ng, Peter (May 1991). "Preliminary descriptions of one new genus and three new species of hymenosomatid crabs from Southeast Asia (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura)" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 39 (2): 363–368.