Albuneidae
Family of crustaceans
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Albuneidae is a little-known family of specialized burrowing sand crabs. There are 50 extant species as well as nine fossil species that have been described.[1] Fossil specimens have been described from the Cretaceous,[2] Miocene[3] and Oligocene.[4]
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Anomura |
| Superfamily: | Hippoidea |
| Family: | Albuneidae Stimpson, 1858 |
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Albuneinae
Lepidopinae
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