Porcelain crabs
| Porcelain crabs | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Porcellana sayana |
||||||||||||
| Systematics | ||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||
| Scientific name | ||||||||||||
| Porcellanidae | ||||||||||||
| Haworth , 1825 |
Porcelain crab (Porcellanidae) are mostly small crustaceans that with its oval carapace the crabs (Brachyura) are very similar. They have antennae longer than this. A pair of the mouthparts are enlarged, feathered, and used to filter plankton-like food from the water. In porcelain crabs, the last pair of legs is shortened.
They live under stones or coral chunks in various gap systems, as commensals on hard corals , soft corals , sea anemones and sponges and some species associated with mangroves.
Porcelain crabs often have a brightly colored pattern with a pattern of spots.
Genera
- Aliaporcellana Nakasone & Miyake, 1969
- Capilliporcellana Haig, 1981
- Clastotoechus Haig, 1960
- Euceramus Stimpson, 1858
- Enosteoides Johnson, 1970
- Owl Eus Ng & Nakasone, 1993
- Lissoporcellana Haig, 1978
- Megalobrachuium Stimpson, 1858
- Minyocerus Stimpson, 1858
- Neopetrolisthes Miyake, 1937
- Neopisoma Haig, 1960
- Pachycheles Ward, 1942
- Parapetrolisthes Haig, 1962
- Petrolisthes Stimpson, 1858
- Pisidia Leach, 1820
- Polyonyx Stimpson, 1858
- Porcellana Lamarck, 1801
- Porcellanella White, 1852
- Pseudoporcellanella Sankarankutty, 1961
- Raphidopus Stimpson, 1858
- Ulloaia Glassell, 1938
swell
- SA Fosså, & AJ Nilsen: Coral reef aquarium. Volume 6, Birgit Schmettkamp Verlag, Bornheim 1998, ISBN 3-928819-18-6
Web links
Commons : Porcelain Crabs - Collection of images, videos, and audio files
- WoRMS (2009). Porcellanidae. Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at [1]. Retrieved March 30, 2009.