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Albuneid Mole Crabs
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Albuneid Mole Crabs

Albuneidae

Albuneidae is a little-known family of specialized burrowing sand crabs. There are 50 extant species as well as nine fossil species that have been described. Fossil specimens have been described from the Cretaceous, Miocene and Oligocene.

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4 branches of this family, most-observed first

Lepidopinae

subfamilyLepidopinae

Albuneinae

subfamilyAlbuneinae

Zygopa

genusZygopa

Squillalbunea

genusSquillalbunea

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 47601.