Glyptograpsidae, Schubart, Cuesta & Felder, 2002

GUINOT, DANIÈLE, TAVARES, MARCOS & CASTRO, PETER, 2013, Significance of the sexual openings and supplementary structures on the phylogeny of brachyuran crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura), with new nomina for higher-ranked podotreme taxa, Zootaxa 3665 (1), pp. 1-414 : 110

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scientific name

Glyptograpsidae
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Family Glyptograpsidae View in CoL

The male gonopore is sternal and it opens on sternite 8, rather far from the P5 coxa and from suture 7/8. In Glyptograpsus Smith, 1870 , the gonopore is limited posteriorly by a complete sulcus, which crosses sternite 8 and reaches (forming a small beak) the extremity of the elongated episternite 7 at a level markedly above the gynglyme receiving the P5 coxo-sternal condyle. Such a sulcus on sternite 8 is frequently found in male thoracotremes, and in Eriocheir sinensis it was referred to as “complete sulcus of sternite 8” ( Guinot 1979a: fig. 52F–J) as opposed to the genera where it is “incomplete” (e.g., Varuna ). A developed portion of sternite 8, appearing as a bipartite plate crossed by the sulcus, remains exposed only at the abdominal somites 2 and 3 levels, whereas abdominal somite 1 is laterally extended and covers the sternum. The penis consists of a relatively small, sclerotised portion and a wide translucid papilla. The same disposition is found in the second genus of the family, Platychirograpsus de Man, 1896 (N.K. Ng, Davie, Schubart & Ng 2007: fig. 4G).

The Glyptograpsidae View in CoL (see Ng, Guinot & Davie 2008: 216) is supported by adult and larval morphologies, and DNA analyses ( Cuesta & Schubart 1998; Schubart et al. 2002, 2006; N.K. Ng, Davie, Schubart & Ng 2007; Schubart & Cuesta 2010). Another molecular analysis using 16S rDNA sequence data by Wetzer et al. (2009: 486, 487, fig. 1) also supported the monophyly of the family and its independent status.

Guinot, D. (1979 a) Donnees nouvelles sur la morphologie, la phylogenese et la taxonomie des Crustaces Decapodes Brachyoures. Memoires du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, ser. A, Zoologie, 112, 1 - 354.

Ng, N. K., Davie, P. J. F., Schubart, C. D. & Ng, P. K. L. (2007) Xenograpsidae, a new family of grapsoid crabs (Crustacea: Brachyura) associated with shallow water hydrothermal vents. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, suppl. 16, 233 - 256.

Ng, P. K. L., Guinot, D. & Davie, P. J. F. (2008) Systema Brachyurorum: Part 1. An annotated checklist of extant brachyuran crabs of the world. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, suppl. 17, 1 - 286. [updates at http: // rmbr. nus. edu. sg / research / cotw / supplement 17. php]

Schubart, C. D. & Cuesta, J. A. (1998) First zoeal stages of four Sesarma species from Panama, with identification keys and remarks on the American Sesarminae (Crustacea: Brachyura: Grapsidae). Journal of Plankton Research, 20 (1), 61 - 84. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1093 / plankt / 20.1.61

Schubart, C D., Cuesta, J. A. & Felder, D. L. (2002) Glyptograpsidae, a new brachyuran family from Central America: larval and adult morphology, and a molecular phylogeny of the Grapsoidea. Journal of Crustacean Biology, 22 (1), 28 - 44. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1651 / 0278 - 0372 (2002) 022 [0028: GANBFF] 2.0. CO; 2

Schubart, C. D. & Cuesta, J. A. (2010) Phylogenetic relationships of the Plagusiidae Dana, 1851 (Brachyura), with description of a new genus and recognition of Percnidae Stevcic, 2005, as an independent family. In: Castro, P., Davie, P. J. F., Ng, P. K. L. & Richer de Forges, B. (Eds.), Studies on Brachyura: A Homage to Daniele Guinot. Crustaceana Monographs, 11, 279 - 299.

Wetzer, R., Martin, J. W. & Boyce, S. L. (2009) Evolutionary origin of the gall crabs (family Cryptochiridae) based on 16 S rDNA sequence data. In: Martin, J. W., Crandall, K. A. & Felder, D. L. (Eds.), Decapod Crustacean Phylogenetics. Crustacean Issues, 18, 475 - 490.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Decapoda

Family

Glyptograpsidae

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Decapoda

Family

Glyptograpsidae