Dromia

Dromia
Dromia
Dromia personata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Infraorder: Brachyura
Family: Dromiidae
Genus: Dromia
Weber, 1795
Type species
Cancer personatus
Linnaeus, 1758

Dromia is a genus of crabs in the family Dromiidae. It contains 7 extant species:[1]

  • Dromia bollorei Forest, 1974
  • Dromia dormia (Linnaeus, 1763)
  • Dromia erythropus (George Edwards, 1771)
  • Dromia gouveai Melo & Campos, 1999
  • Dromia marmorea Forest, 1974
  • Dromia nodosa A. Milne-Edwards & Bouvier, 1898
  • Dromia personata (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Dromia wilsoni (Fulton & Grant, 1902)

Two further species are known only from fossils.[2]

References

  1. ^ Peter K. L. Ng, Danièle Guinot & Peter J. F. Davie (2008). "Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 17: 1–286. http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s17/s17rbz.pdf. 
  2. ^ Sammy De Grave, N. Dean Pentcheff, Shane T. Ahyong et al. (2009). "A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology Suppl. 21: 1–109. http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s21/s21rbz1-109.pdf. 


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