Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Eucarida > Order Decapoda > Suborder Pleocyemata > Infraorder Brachyura > Section Eubrachyura > Subsection Heterotremata > Superfamily Parthenopoidea > Family Parthenopidae

Parthenopinae MacLeay, 1838

Rank: Subfamily
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Derilambrus Tan & Ng, 2007
Distolambrus Tan & Ng, 2007
Heterocrypta Stimpson, 1871
Parthenope Weber, 1795
Parthenopoides Miers, 1879
Platylambrus Stimpson, 1871
Spinolambrus Tan & Ng, 2007
Velolambrus Tan & Ng, 2007

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: ヒシガニ亜科

Literature

original description	MacLeay, W.S. (1838). Illustrations of the Annulosa of South Africa. On the brachyurous decapod Crustacea. Brought from the Cape by Dr. Smith. In: Smith, A. (ed.), Illustrations of the Zoology of South Africa; consisting chiefly of Figures and Descriptions of the Objects of Natural History Collected during an Expedition into the Interior of South Africa, in the Years 1834, 1835, and 1836; fitted out by “The Cape of Good Hope Association for Exploring Central Africa”. Published under the Authority of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, London, pp. i–iv + 53–71, pls. 2, 3.

Genbank

Citation

DecaNet eds. (2025). DecaNet. Parthenopinae MacLeay, 1838. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:439063