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Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Superclassis: Multicrustacea
Classis: Malacostraca
Subclassis: Eumalacostraca
Superordo: Eucarida
Ordo: Decapoda
Subordo: Pleocyemata
Infraordo: Anomura
Superfamilia: Hippoidea

Familia: Albuneidae
Genera (9 + 3†): AlbuneaAustrolepidopaLeucolepidopaLepidopaParaleucolepidopaParalbuneaSquillalbuneaStemonopaStemonopa – †Harryhausenia – †Italialbunea – †Sklallamia

Name

Albuneidae (correction by Miers, 1878, of 'Albunidae') Stimpson, 1858

Type genus: Albunea Weber, 1795
References

Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philadelphia 1858: 230
Boyko, Christopher B. (2002). A worldwide revision of the recent and fossil sand crabs of the Albuneidae Stimpson and Blepharipodidae, new family (Crustacea, Decapoda, Anomura, Hippoidea). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 272: 1–396.
Boyko, Christopher B. (2004). A New Genus of Fossil Sand Crab (Anomura: Albuneidae) from the Oligocene of Italy. Palaeontology 47 (4), 933-936.
Boyko, C.B. 2010: New records and taxonomic data for 14 species of sand crabs (Crustacea: Anomura: Albuneidae) from localities worldwide. Zootaxa, 2555: 49–61. Preview
Boyko, C.B.; Harvey, A.W. 2009: Phylogenetic systematics and biogeography of the sand crab families Albuneidae and Blepharipodidae (Crustacea: Anomura: Hippoidea). Invertebrate systematics, 23: 1–18. DOI: 10.1071/IS06053

Vernacular names
中文: 管须蟹科

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.[1] Fossil specimens have been described from the Cretaceous,[2] Miocene[3] and Oligocene.[4]
References

Sammy De Grave; N. Dean Pentcheff; Shane T. Ahyong; et al. (2009). "A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. Suppl. 21: 1–109. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-06.
René H. B. Fraaije (2002). "The first record of albuneid crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda) from the Cretaceous" (PDF). Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum. 29: 69–72. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-12. Retrieved 2009-12-10.
René H. B. Fraaije, Barry W. M. van Bakel & John W. M. Jagt (2008). "Albunea turritellacola, a new sand crab (Anomura, Albuneidae) from the lower Miocene of southwest France" (PDF). Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum. 34: 17–22. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-12. Retrieved 2009-12-10.

Christopher B. Boyko (2004). "A new genus of fossil sand crab (Anomura: Albuneidae) from the Oligocene of Italy" (PDF). Palaeontology. 47 (4): 933–936. doi:10.1111/j.0031-0239.2004.00391.x.

Further reading
John C. Markham; Christopher B. Boyko (2003). "A new species of Albunione Markham & Boyko, 1999 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Bopyridae: Pseudioninae) from Taiwan". American Museum Novitates. 3410: 1–7. doi:10.1206/0003-0082(2003)410<0001:ANSOAM>2.0.CO;2.

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