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Pilumnus

Malacostraca - Decapoda - Pilumnidae

Taxonomy
Pilumnus was named by Leach (1816) [Sepkoski's age data: T Ol R]. It is extant. It is the type genus of Pilumnidae, Pilumnoidea, Pilumninae.

It was reranked as Cancer (Pilumnus) by de Haan (1835).

It was assigned to Cancer by de Haan (1835); to Ozinae by Dana (1851); to Menippinae by Rathbun (1909); to Decapoda by Sepkoski (2002); to Pilumnidae by Samouelle (1819), Karasawa (1993), Garassino et al. (2004) and Karasawa and Schweitzer (2006); and to Pilumninae by Karasawa (1990), Collins et al. (2003), Schweitzer et al. (2010), Luque et al. (2017) and Schweitzer et al. (2022).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1816Pilumnus Leach pp. 306-400
1819Pilumnus Samouelle pp. 496 pp.
1835Cancer (Pilumnus) de Haan
1851Pilumnus Dana p. 127
1909Pilumnus Rathbun p. 113
1990Pilumnus Karasawa p. 28
1993Pilumnus Karasawa p. 69
2002Pilumnus Sepkoski
2003Pilumnus Collins et al. p. 221
2004Pilumnus Garassino et al. p. 273
2006Pilumnus Karasawa and Schweitzer p. 47
2010Pilumnus Schweitzer et al. p. 120
2017Pilumnus Luque et al. p. 18
2022Pilumnus Schweitzer et al. p. 7

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
Deuteropoda
Mandibulata
PancrustaceaZrzavý and Štys 1997
Hymenostraca(Rolfe 1969)
superclassMulticrustaceaRegier et al. 2010
classMalacostraca()
RankNameAuthor
subclassEumalacostracaGrobben 1892
CaridoidaHessler 1982
orderDecapoda
suborderPleocyemataBurkenroad 1963
Reptantia(Boas)
MeiuraSaint Laurent 1980
infraorderBrachyura()
Eubrachyurade Saint Laurent 1980
HeterotremataGuinot 1977
superfamilyPilumnoideaSamouelle 1819
familyPilumnidae
subfamilyPilumninaeSamouelle 1819
genusPilumnusLeach 1816

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. Pilumnus Leach 1816
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Pilumnus borradailei Rathbun 1909
Pilumnus cucaoensis Feldmann et al. 2005
Pilumnus fookimensis Collins et al. 2003
Pilumnus hirtellus Linnaeus 1761
Pilumnus lunatus Milne Edwards and Lucas 1843
Pilumnus mediterraneus Lörenthey 1898
Pilumnus olivellai Muller 1993
Pilumnus pannosus Rathbun 1896
Pilumnus ristorii De Angeli et al. 2009
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Invalid names: Pilumnus spinosus Ristori 1886 [replaced]
Pilumnus sayi Rathbun 1897
Pilumnus scaber Gatt and de Angeli 2010
Pilumnus spinossimus Rathbun 1898
Pilumnus subequus Rathbun 1919
Pilumnus villosissimus Rafinesque 1814
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available