Bythograeidae

Bythograeidae
Gandalfus yunohana
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Brachyura
Subsection: Heterotremata
Superfamily: Bythograeoidea
Williams, 1980
Family: Bythograeidae
Williams, 1980
Genera

The Bythograeidae are a small family of blind crabs which live around hydrothermal vents. The family contains 16 species in six genera.[1][2] Their relationships to other crabs are unclear.[3] They are believed to eat bacteria and other vent organisms. Bythograeidae are a monophyletic, sister taxon of the superfamily Xanthoidea which split to inhabit hydrothermal vents around the Eocene.[4][5]

  1. ^ Colin McLay (2007). "New crabs from hydrothermal vents of the Kermadec Ridge submarine volcanoes, New Zealand: Gandalfus gen. nov. (Bythograeidae) and Xenograpsus (Varunidae) (Decapoda: Brachyura)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 1524: 1–22. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1524.1.1.
  2. ^ P. Davie (2010). "Bythograeidae Dana, 1852". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved December 6, 2010.
  3. ^ J. W. Martin & G. E. Davis (2001). An Updated Classification of the Recent Crustacea (PDF). Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. pp. 1–132. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-05-12. Retrieved 2009-12-14.
  4. ^ von Sternberg, R.; Cumberlidge, N.; Rodriguez, G. (March 1999). "On the marine sister groups of the freshwater crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura)". Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research. 37 (1): 19–38. doi:10.1046/j.1439-0469.1999.95092.x. ISSN 0947-5745.
  5. ^ Lee, Won-Kyung; Kim, Se-Joo; Hou, Bo Kyeng; Dover, Cindy Lee Van; Ju, Se-Jong (2019-04-24). "Population genetic differentiation of the hydrothermal vent crab Austinograea alayseae (Crustacea: Bythograeidae) in the Southwest Pacific Ocean". PLOS ONE. 14 (4): e0215829. Bibcode:2019PLoSO..1415829L. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0215829. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 6481846. PMID 31017948.