Planes (genus)

Planes is a genus of crabs in the family Grapsidae that currently comprises three extant species:^[2] Planes minutus (Linnaeus, 1758), Planes marinus Rathbun, 1914, and Planes major (=cyaneus) (MacLeay, 1838). A further fossil species is known^[3] from the Middle Miocene of the Caucasus.^[4]

Planes Temporal range: Middle Miocene–Recent PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Planes minutus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Suborder:	Pleocyemata
Infraorder:	Brachyura
Family:	Grapsidae
Genus:	Planes Bowdich, 1825
Type species
Planes clypeatus Bowdich, 1825^[1]
Species
Planes minutus (Linnaeus, 1758) Planes marinus Rathbun, 1914 Planes major (MacLeay, 1838)
Synonyms^[1]
Nautilograpsus H. Milne Edwards, 1837

References

1. Sammy De Grave (2019). "Planes Bowdich, 1825". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 1 August 2022.
2. Peter K. L. Ng; Danièle Guinot & Peter J. F. Davie (2008). "Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 17: 1–286.
3. Sammy De Grave; N. Dean Pentcheff; Shane T. Ahyong; et al. (2009). "A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. Suppl. 21: 1–109.
4. Andreas Brösing (2008). "A reconstruction of an evolutionary scenario for the Brachyura (Decapoda) in the context of the Cretaceous–Tertiary boundary" (PDF). Crustaceana. 81 (3): 271–287. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.652.1701. doi:10.1163/156854008783564091.