EPIALTIDAE MacLeay, 1838

Muñoz, Isabel, García-Isarch, Eva & Cuesta, Jose A., 2021, Annotated and updated checklist of marine crabs (Decapoda: Brachyura) of Mozambique supported by morphological and molecular data from shelf and slope species of the “ MOZAMBIQUE ” surveys, Zootaxa 5056 (1), pp. 1-67 : 28

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5056.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:D20A249C-1CA4-45F8-8677-D2011A8380A4
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5592511
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D487F8-213F-FFFA-FF71-DECABC7BFD88
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	EPIALTIDAE MacLeay, 1838
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Family EPIALTIDAE MacLeay, 1838 View in CoL

According to Davie et al. (2015a), this large family includes 89 genera and 452 species. Four subfamilies are recognized, Epialtinae MacLeay, Pisinae Dana View in CoL , Pliosomatinae Števčić, and Tychinae Dana ( Ng et al 2008). They inhabit shallow waters, even intertidal ( Emmerson 2016b,c).All the subfamilies except Pliosomatinae are represented in the study area