Latreilliidae

Latreilliidae
	Eplumula phalangium
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Crustacea
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Infraorder:	Brachyura
Superfamily:	Homoloidea
Family:	Latreilliidae; Stimpson, 1858
Genera
	Latreillia Roux, 1830; Eplumula Williams, 1982;

Latreilliidae is a small family of crabs. They are relatively small, long-legged crabs found on soft bottoms at depths of up 700 metres (2,300 ft) in mostly tropical and subtemperate waters around the world.[1] The family and its type genus are named after Pierre André Latreille. It comprises seven extant species.[2]

References

Peter Castro, Austin B. William & Lara L. Cooper (2003). "Revision of the family Latreilliidae Stimpson, 1858 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura)" (PDF). Zoosystema. 25 (4): 601–634. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2006-11-19.
P. K. L. Ng, D. Guinot & P. J. F. Davie (2008). "Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 17: 1–286. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-06.

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[1] Peter Castro, Austin B. William & Lara L. Cooper (2003). "Revision of the family Latreilliidae Stimpson, 1858 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura)" (PDF). Zoosystema. 25 (4): 601–634. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2006-11-19.

[Ng-2] P. K. L. Ng, D. Guinot & P. J. F. Davie (2008). "Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 17: 1–286. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-06.