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Trichodactylidae

Wikipedia Abstract

Trichodactylidae is a family of crabs, in its own superfamily, Trichodactyloidea. They are all freshwater animals from Central and South America, including some offshore islands, such as Ilhabela, São Paulo. Only one of the 50 species is known from the fossil record, Sylviocarcinus piriformis from the Miocene of Colombia. The family contains 15 genera in two subfamilies:
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Genus

Avotrichodactylus (2)
Bottiella (3)
Dilocarcinus (3)
Forsteriana (1)
Fredilocarcinus (3)
Goyazana (2)
Melocarcinus (1)
Moreirocarcinus (3)
Poppiana (3)
Rodriguezia (3)
Rotundovaldivia (1)
Sylviocarcinus (5)
Trichodactylus (12)   (1)
Valdivia (4)
Zilchiopsis (3)

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External References

Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0