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==Diversity== {{As of|2018}}, some 4723 extant species of porcelain crab had been described,<ref name="checklist">{{cite journal |author1=Masayuki Osawa |author2=Patsy A. McLaughlin |name-list-style=amp |year=2010 |title=Annotated checklist of anomuran decapod crustaceans of the world (exclusive of the Kiwaoidea and families Chirostylidae and Galatheidae of the Galatheoidea) Part II – Porcellanidae |journal=[[Zootaxa]] |volume=Suppl. 23 |pages=109–129 |url=http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s23/s23rbz109-129.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120302185947/http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s23/s23rbz109-129.pdf |archive-date=2012-03-02 }}</ref>{{Citation needed|date=October 2022|reason=Reference from 2010 can not reference the situation as of 2018. Reference does not support the claim.}} divided among these 30 genera:<ref name="checklist"/><ref>{{cite web |author=WoRMS |year=2010 |title=Porcellanidae |publisher=[[World Register of Marine Species]] |url=http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=106734 |access-date=November 13, 2010}}</ref> {{div col|colwidth=21em}} *''[[Aliaporcellana]]'' <small>Nakasone & Miyake, 1969</small> *''[[Allopetrolisthes]]'' <small>Haig, 1960</small> *''[[Ancylocheles]]'' <small>Haig, 1978</small> *''[[Capilliporcellana]]'' <small>Haig, 1978</small> *''[[Clastotoechus]]'' <small>Haig, 1960</small> *''[[Enosteoides]]'' <small>Johnson, 1970</small> *''[[Euceramus]]'' <small>Stimpson, 1860</small> *''[[Eulenaios]]'' <small>Ng & Nakasone, 1993</small> *''[[Heteropolyonyx]]'' <small>Osawa, 2001</small> *''[[Heteroporcellana]]'' <small>Haig, 1978</small> *''[[Liopetrolisthes]]'' <small>Haig, 1960</small> *''[[Lissoporcellana]]'' <small>Haig, 1978</small> *''[[Madarateuchus]]'' <small>Harvey, 1999</small> *''[[Megalobrachium]]'' <small>Stimpson, 1858</small> *''[[Minyocerus]]'' <small>Stimpson, 1858</small> *''[[Neopetrolisthes]]'' <small>Miyake, 1937</small> *''[[Neopisosoma]]'' <small>Haig, 1960</small> *''[[Novorostrum]]'' <small>Osawa, 1998</small> *''[[Orthochela]]'' <small>Glassell, 1936</small> *''[[Pachycheles]]'' <small>Stimpson, 1858</small> *''[[Parapetrolisthes]]'' <small>Haig, 1962</small> *''[[Petrocheles]]'' <small>Miers, 1876</small> *''[[Petrolisthes]]'' <small>Stimpson, 1858</small> *''[[Pisidia (crustacean)|Pisidia]]'' <small>Leach, 1820</small> *''[[Polyonyx]]'' <small>Stimpson, 1858</small> *''[[Porcellana]]'' <small>Lamarck, 1801</small> *''[[Porcellanella]]'' <small>White, 1852</small> *''[[Pseudoporcellanella]]'' <small>Sankarankutty, 1962</small> *''[[Raphidopus]]'' <small>Stimpson, 1858</small> *''[[Ulloaia]]'' <small>Glassell, 1938</small> {{div col end}} The [[fossil record]] of porcelain crabs includes species of ''Pachycheles'', ''Pisidia'', ''Polyonyx'', ''Porcellana'', and a further six genera known only from fossils:<ref name="Schweitzer">{{cite journal |author1=Carrie E. Schweitzer |author2=Rodney M. Feldmann |name-list-style=amp |year=2010 |title=Earliest known Porcellanidae (Decapoda: Anomura: Galatheoidea) (Jurassic: Tithonian) |journal=[[Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen]] |volume=258 |issue=2 |pages=243–248 |url=http://decapoda.nhm.org/pdfs/31610/31610.pdf |doi=10.1127/0077-7749/2010/0096}}</ref> *''[[Annieporcellana]]'' <small>Fraaije ''et al.'', 2008</small> *''[[Beripetrolisthes]]'' <small>De Angeli & Garassino, 2002</small> *''[[Eopetrolisthes]]'' <small>De Angeli & Garassino, 2002</small> *''[[Lobipetrolisthes]]'' <small>De Angeli & Garassino, 2002</small> *''[[Longoporcellana]]'' <small>Müller & Collins, 1991</small> The earliest claimed porcelain crab fossil was ''[[Jurellana]]'' from the [[Tithonian]] aged [[Ernstbrunn]] [[Limestone]] of Austria.<ref name="Schweitzer"/> However, it was subsequently determined to be a true crab. With the new oldest porcelain crab being ''[[Vibrissalana]]'' from the same locality.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Robins|first=Cristina M|last2=Klompmaker|first2=Adiël A|date=2019-11-14|title=Extreme diversity and parasitism of Late Jurassic squat lobsters (Decapoda: Galatheoidea) and the oldest records of porcellanids and galatheids|url=https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/187/4/1131/5555554|journal=Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society|language=en|volume=187|issue=4|pages=1131–1154|doi=10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz067|issn=0024-4082|doi-access=free}}</ref>
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