Species list, Checklist of Superfamily Hippoidea (mole crabs) for Jamaica (Greater Antilles)

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Checklist for Superfamily Hippoidea Latreille, 1825 (mole crabs)
and region Jamaica (Greater Antilles)

Class	Malacostraca Latreille, 1802 Higher Crustaceans, Malacostracans	147 356 634	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Subclass	Eumalacostraca Grobben, 1892	147 356 634	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Superorder	Eucarida Calman, 1904	85 247 496	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Order	Decapoda Latreille, 1802 Crabs, Crayfishes, Decapod, Decapods, Lobsters, Prawns	85 247 496	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Suborder	Pleocyemata Burkenroad, 1963	79 221 427	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Infraorder	Anomura MacLeay, 1838 Hermit crabs, Hermit Crabs and Mole Crabs, Mud shrimps	12 23 50	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Superfamily	Hippoidea Latreille, 1825 Mole crabs, Sand crabs	2 3 5	Families Genera Species	Taxom

List of families for Jamaica
2 Families width 5 Species

Albuneidae Stimpson, 1858	Mole crabs	2	Species	Taxom
Hippidae Latreille, 1825	Mole Crabs	3	Species	Taxom

Genera for Jamaica
3 Genera with 5 Species

Species list for Jamaica
5 Species

Albunea oxyophthalma (Miers, 1878)	⇒ Albunea paretii Guérin-Ménev..., 1853
Albunea paretii Guérin-Ménev..., 1853	Beach mole crab
Emerita portoricensis Schmitt, 1935	Puerto Rican sand crab
Hippa cubensis (Saussure, 1857)	⇒ Hippa testudinaria Herbst, 1791
Hippa testudinaria Herbst, 1791

Subnodes of Hippoidea with occurrences in Jamaica

Family	Albuneidae Stimpson, 1858 Mole crabs, sand crabs	1 2	Genus Species	Taxom
Family	Hippidae Latreille, 1825 Mole Crabs, Sand crabs	2 3	Genera Species	Taxom

Links, sources and further information

Hippoidea at biodiversity.org.au
Hippoidea at itis.gov
Hippoidea at marinespecies.org