Albunea (crustacean) explained

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.^[1]

The genus Albunea contains the following species:^[2]

• 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 †

Further reading

• The Hippoidea (Decapoda, Anomura) of the Marquises Islands, with description of a new species of Albunea . Christopher B. Boyko . 2000 . . 22 . 1 . 107–116 . 2009-12-10 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110612105015/http://www.mnhn.fr/publication/zoosyst/z00n1a7.pdf# . 2011-06-12 . dead .
• Michel E. Henrickx & Alan W. Harvey . 1998 . Checklist of Anomuran Crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda) from the Eastern Tropical Pacific . . 129 . 2 . 363–389 .

Notes and References

1. News: My True Love Gave To Me … A Bat Species!. . December 9, 2008 .
2. Web site: Chris Boyko & Michael Türkay . 2010 . Albunea Weber, 1795 . . November 3, 2010.