Albunea (genus)

Albunea
Albunea carabus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Crustacea
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Infraorder:	Anomura
Superfamily:	Hippoidea
Family:	Albuneidae
Genus:	Albunea Weber, 1795 [1]

Albunea is a genus of mole crab within the Albuneidae. Little is known about this group's biology. A. groeningi is named after Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons.^[2]

The genus Albunea contains the following species:^[3]

• Albunea asymmetrica (Müller, 1979) †
• Albunea bulla Boyko, 2002
• Albunea carabus (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Albunea catherinae Boyko, 2002
• Albunea cuisiana Beschin & De Angeli, 1984 †
• Albunea danai Boyko, 1999
• Albunea elegans A. Milne-Edwards & Bouvier, 1898
• Albunea elioti Benedict, 1904
• Albunea galapagensis Boyko, 2002
• Albunea gibbesii Stimpson, 1859
• Albunea groeningi Boyko, 2002
• Albunea hahnae Blow & Manning, 1996 †
• Albunea holthuisi Boyko & Harvey, 1999
• Albunea lucasia de Saussure, 1853
• Albunea marquisiana Boyko, 2000
• Albunea microps Miers, 1878
• Albunea occulta Boyko, 2002
• Albunea okinawaensis Osawa & Fujita, 2007
• Albunea paretii Guérin-Méneville, 1853
• Albunea speciosa Dana, 1852
• Albunea steinitzi Holthuis, 1958
• Albunea symmysta (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Albunea thurstoni Henderson, 1893
• Albunea turritellacola Fraaije, van Bakel & Jagt, 2008 †

References

1. "Albunea". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved November 3, 2010.
2. "My True Love Gave To Me … A Bat Species!". CBS News. December 9, 2008.
3. Chris Boyko & Michael Türkay (2010). "Albunea Weber, 1795". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved November 3, 2010.

Further reading

• Christopher B. Boyko (2000). "The Hippoidea (Decapoda, Anomura) of the Marquises Islands, with description of a new species of Albunea" (PDF). Zoosystema. 22 (1): 107–116.
• Michel E. Henrickx & Alan W. Harvey (1998). "Checklist of Anomuran Crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda) from the Eastern Tropical Pacific" (PDF). Belgian Journal of Zoology. 129 (2): 363–389.