Thaumastochelidae
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| Thaumastocheles massonktenos | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Superfamily: | Nephropoidea |
| Family: | Thaumastochelidae Bate, 1888 |
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Thaumastocheles Wood-Mason, 1874 | |
The family Thaumastochelidae contains five known species of deep-sea
The family Thaumastochelidae is now more usually subsumed into the lobster family
Nephropidae.[4]
The five species are as follows:
- Thaumastocheles
- Thaumastocheles dochmiodon Chan & de Saint Laurent, 1999 is found in the Timor Sea.
- Thaumastocheles japonicus Calman, 1913, the "Pacific pincer lobster", is endemic to the Sea of Japan.
- Thaumastocheles zaleucus Thomson, 1873, the "Atlantic pincer lobster" or "Atlantic deep-sea lobster", is endemic to the Caribbean region.
- Thaumastochelopsis
- Thaumastochelopsis brucei Ahyong, Chu & Chan, 2007 lives in the Coral Sea.
- Thaumastochelopsis wardi Bruce, 1988, the "Australian pincer lobster", lives in the Coral Sea.
References
- ^ "Image Gallery". Census of Marine Life. Retrieved 2009-11-27.
- ^ "Deep sea oddities and more from the Census of Marine Life". Fox News. 2009-11-23.
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- ^ Tin-Yam Chan (2009). "Nephropidae Dana, 1852". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 24 July 2017.
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