GERYONIDAE Colosi, 1923

Muñoz, Isabel, García-Isarch, Eva & Cuesta, Jose A., 2021, Annotated and updated checklist of marine crabs (Decapoda: Brachyura) of Mozambique supported by morphological and molecular data from shelf and slope species of the “ MOZAMBIQUE ” surveys, Zootaxa 5056 (1), pp. 1-67 : 40

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scientific name	GERYONIDAE Colosi, 1923
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Family GERYONIDAE Colosi, 1923 View in CoL

According to Davie et al. (2015a) this family comprises five genera and 39 species. Geryonidae includes some species of high commercial interest, such as the pink Geryon Chaceon macphersoni Manning & Holthuis, 1988 ( Doherty 2015; Groenevel et al. 2013).

References

Colosi, G. (1923) Una specie fossile di Gerionide (Decapodi brachiuri). Bolettino della Societa dei Naturalisti in Napoli, 35, Series 2, 15 (37), 248 - 225.

Davie, P. J. F., Guinot, D. & Ng, P. K. L. (2015 a) Systematics and classification of Brachyura. In: Castro, P., Davie, P. J. F., Guinot, D., Schram, F. & Von Vaupel Klein, J. C. (Eds.), Treatise on Zoology - Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology. The Crustacea, 9 C (I), Decapoda: Brachyura. Part 2. Brill, Leiden and Boston, pp. 1049 - 1130. https: // doi. org / 10.1163 / 9789004190832 _ 021

Doherty, B., McBride, M. M., Brito, A. J., Le Manach, F., Sousa, L., Chauca, I. & Zeller, D. (2015) Marine fisheries in Mozambique: catches updated to 2010 and taxonomic disaggregation. In: Le Manach, F. & Pauly, D. (Eds.), Fisheries catch reconstructions in the Western Indian Ocean, 1950 - 2010. Fisheries Centre Research Reports. 23 (2). Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, pp. 67 - 81.

Manning, R. B. & Holthuis, L. B. (1988) South African species of the genus Geryon (Crustacea, Decapoda, Geryonidae). Annals of the South African Museum, 98, 77 - 92.