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Dynomenidae
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Dynomenidae

Dynomenidae is a family of crabs in the superfamily Dromioidea mostly found in Madagascar. There are nineteen genera in this family: five extant and fourteen known from fossils:

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4 branches of this family, most-observed first

Dynomeninae

subfamilyDynomeninae

Paradynomeninae

subfamilyParadynomeninae

Metadynomeninae

subfamilyMetadynomeninae

Acanthodromiinae

subfamilyAcanthodromiinae

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 195218.