Open AccessA phylogenetic study of the Calappidae H. Milne Edwards 1837 (Crustacea: Brachyura) with a reappraisal of the status of the family
Author(s) -
BELLWOOD ORPHA
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
zoological journal of the linnean society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.148
H-Index - 83
eISSN - 1096-3642
pISSN - 0024-4082
DOI - 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1996.tb00225.x
Subject(s) - biology , sensu , cladistics , monophyly , lineage (genetic) , phylogenetic tree , taxon , zoology , evolutionary biology , ecology , genus , clade , genetics , gene
The systematic status of the family Calappidae and the phylogenetic relationships of its four component subfamilies are re‐evaluated based on a cladistic analysis of 78 adult morphological characters. A single tree was produced (CI = 0.654). The monophyly of the Calappidae sensu lato is rejected. The data suggest that the Calappinae and Hepatinae form a single lineage which is closer to some xanthids than to the Matutinae or Orithyiinae. A close link between the Matutinae and some leucosiids and between the Orithyiinae. and some dorippids is also apparent, with a suggestion that these four taxa all belong to a single lineage. A revised classification of the Oxystomata emend , and Calappidae is proposed.