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Blepharipodidae Boyko, 2002 
AphiaID: 467686

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Eucarida (Superorder) > Decapoda (Order) > Pleocyemata (Suborder) > Anomura (Infraorder) > Hippoidea (Superfamily)
Status accepted
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Rank Family
Typetaxon Blepharipoda Randall, 1840 (type by original designation)
Parent Hippoidea
Source  original description: Boyko, C.B. (2002). A worldwide revision of the Recent and fossil sand crabs of the Albuneidae Stimpson and Blepharipodidae, new family (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Hippoidea). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 272: 1-396. [details]

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 Genus Blepharipoda Randall, 1840
Genus Lophomastix Benedict, 1904

Genus Abrote Philippi, 1857 accepted as Blepharipoda Randall, 1840
Genus Albunhippa H. Milne Edwards & Lucas, 1841 accepted as Blepharipoda Randall, 1840
Genus Blepharopoda Stimpson, 1857 accepted as Lophomastix Benedict, 1904
Genus Lophomastrix Urita, 1934 † accepted as Lophomastix Benedict, 1904
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:467686
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2010-04-16 05:58:26Z  created  Boyko, Christopher
2010-04-28 17:19:05Z  changed  Boyko, Christopher
  
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  Citation: Boyko, C. (2013). Blepharipodidae. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=467686 on 2013-05-25
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