DROMIIDAE De Haan, 1833

Guinot, Danièle & Quenette, Gwenaël, 2005, The spermatheca in podotreme crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Podotremata) and its phylogenetic implications, Zoosystema 27 (2), pp. 267-342 : 284

Family DROMIIDAE De Haan, 1833

The family Dromiidae , commonly referred to as “sponge crabs”, was extensively revised by McLay (1993), and later augmented with several new genera and species (McLay 2001a-c, 2002; Guinot & Tavares 2003). It forms the largest family of primitive brachyuran crabs (more than 120 species in some 40 genera). The subfamilial system ( Dromiinae , Hypoconchinae , and Sphaerodromiinae ) proposed by Guinot & Tavares (2003) was largely based upon the organization of the thoracic sternum, including the female sternal sutures 7/8 and the apertures of the spermathecae at their extremities.