VARUNIDAE H. MILNE EDWARDS, 1853

Martin, Joel W. & Haney, Todd A., 2005, Decapod crustaceans from hydrothermal vents and cold seeps: a review through 2005, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 145 (4), pp. 445-522 : 498

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scientific name	VARUNIDAE H. MILNE EDWARDS, 1853
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FAMILY VARUNIDAE H. MILNE EDWARDS, 1853

Remarks: The varunids were formerly treated as a subfamily of the Grapsidae , most of which are commonly called ‘shore crabs’ (Williams et al., 1989; McLaughlin et al., 2005). Recognition of the Varunidae as a separate family follows the classification of Martin & Davis (2001) and papers cited therein. The only genus of the family Varunidae known from vents, Xenograpsus (see below), is probably deserving of its own family (P. Ng, pers. comm.) based on larval morphology and other characters; if so this would leave the varunids without known vent representatives.

References

Martin JW, Davis GE. 2001. An updated classification of the Recent Crustacea. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Science Series 39: 1 - 124.

McLaughlin PA, Camp DK, Angel MV, Bousfield EL, Brunel P, Brusca RC, Cadien D, Cohen AC, Conlan K, Eldredge LG, Felder DL, Goy JW, Haney T, Hann B, Heard RW, Hendrycks E, Hobbs HH III, Holsinger JR, Kensley B, Laubitz DR, LeCroy SE, Lemaitre R, Maddocks RF, Martin JW, Mikkelsen P, Nelson E, Newman WA, Overstreet RM, Poly WJ, Price W, Reid JW, Robertson A, Rogers DC, Ross A, Schotte M, Schram FR, Schih C-T, Watling L, Wilson GDF, Turgeon DD. 2005. Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: crustaceans. American Fisheries Society Special Publication 31.

Milne Edwards H. 1853. Memoir sur la famille des Ocypodiens, suite. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, series 3: Zoologie 20: 163 - 228.