BYTHOGRAEIDAE WILLIAMS, 1980
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FAMILY BYTHOGRAEIDAE WILLIAMS, 1980
Remarks: The family Bythograeidae , first described by Williams (1980) to accommodate Bythograea thermydron from vents in the eastern Pacific, remains the only family of crabs truly endemic to deep-sea hydrothermal vents. To date, the family is represented by five genera: Allograea Guinot, Hurtado & Vrijenhoek, 2002 , Austinograea Hessler & Martin, 1989 , Bythograea Williams, 1980 , Cyanagraea de Saint Laurent, 1984 and Segonzacia Guinot, 1989 . All species are assumed to be predators rather than bacterial feeders or grazers (e.g. Gorodezky & Childress, 1994); indeed, they are probably top predators at vent sites (see Jollivet, 1993; Voight, 2000; Micheli et al., 2002). The southern extent of the family, as is currently known, appears to be at approximately 40°S, as indicated by observations of unnamed bythograeids by Stecher, Türkay & Borowski (2002) from the Foundation Seamount Chain of the Pacific- Antarctic Ridge and by Clark & O’Shea (2001) from the Kermadec Ridge off New Zealand, slightly further north.
Clark MR, O'Shea S. 2001. Hydrothermal vent and seamount fauna from the southern Kermadec Ridge, New Zealand. InterRidge News 10 (2): 14 - 17.
de Saint Laurent M. 1984. Crustaces decapodes d'un site hydrothermal actif de la dorsale du Pacific oriental (13 ° Nord), en provenance de la campagne francaise Biocyatherm. Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences de Paris, serie III 299: 355 - 360.
Gorodezky LA, Childress JJ. 1994. Effects of sulfide exposure history and hemolymph thiosulfate on oxygen consumption rates and regulation in the hydrothermal vent crab Bythograea thermydron. Marine Biology 120 (1): 123 - 131.
Guinot D. 1989. Description de Segonzacia gen. nov. et remarques sur Segonzacia mesatlantica (Williams): campagne HYDROSNAKE 1988 sur la dorsale medio-Atlantique (Crustacea Decapoda Brachyura). Bulletin du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, serie IV 11: 203 - 231.
Guinot D, Hurtado LA, Vrijenhoek R. 2002. New genus and species of brachyuran crab from the southern East Pacific Rise (Crustacea Decapoda Brachyura Bythograeidae). Comptes Rendus Biologies 325 (11): 1143 - 1152.
Hessler RR, Martin JW. 1989. Austinograea williamsi, new genus, new species, a hydrothermal vent crab (Decapoda: Bythograeidae) from the Mariana Back-Arc Basin, western Pacific. Journal of Crustacean Biology 9 (4): 645 - 661.
Jollivet D. 1993. Distribution et evolution de la faune associee aux sources hydrothermales profondes a 13 ° N sur la dorsale du Pacifique Orientale: le cas particuliere des polychetes Alvinellidae. These de Doctorat nouveau regime, Universite de Bretagne Occidentale.
Micheli F, Peterson CH, Mullineaux LS, Fisher CR, Mills SW, Sancho G, Johnson GA, Lenihan HS. 2002. Predation structures communities at deep-sea hydrothermal vents. Ecological Monographs 72 (3): 365 - 382.
Stecher J, Turkay M, Borowski C. 2002. Faunal assemblages on the Pacific-Antarctic Ridge near the Foundation Seamount Chain (37 ° 30 ' S, 110 ° 30 ' W). Cahiers de Biologie Marine 43: 271 - 274.
Voight J. 2000. A review of predators and predation at deepsea hydrothermal vents. Cahiers Biologie Marine 41: 155 - 166.
Williams AB. 1980. A new crab family from the vicinity of submarine thermal vents on the Galapagos Rift (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 93 (2): 443 - 472.
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