Taxonavigation

Familia: Majidae
Subfamily: Majinae
Genera: Alcomaja – Choniognathus – Holthuija – Maja – Neomaja – Ovimaja – Paramaja – Paramaya – Planaja – Rathbunaja – Sakaija

Name

Majinae Samouelle, 1819

Type genus: Maja Lamarck, 1801

References

• Samouelle, G. 1819. The entomologists' useful compendium; or an introduction to the knowledge of British Insects, comprising the best means of obtaining and preserving them, and a description of the apparatus generally used; together with the genera of Linné, and modern methods of arranging the Classes Crustacea, Myriapoda, spiders, mites and insects, from their affinities and structure, according to the views of Dr. Leach. Also an explanation of the terms used in entomology; a calendar of the times of appearance and usual situations of near 3,000 species of British Insects; with instructions for collecting and fitting up objects for the microscope. Thomas Boys, London, 496 pp., 12 pls. BHL. Reference page. 

• Ng, P.K.L., Prema, M. & Ravichandran, S. 2018. A new species of deep-water spider crab of the genus Paramaya De Haan, 1837 from the Bay of Bengal, India (Crustacea, Brachyura, Majidae). ZooKeys 769: 77–88. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.769.26152. Reference page. 

• Ng, P.K.L. & Richer de Forges, B. 2015. Revision of the spider crab genus Maja Lamarck, 1801 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Majoidea: Majidae), with descriptions of seven new genera and 17 new species from the Atlantic and Indo-West Pacific. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 63: 110–225. PDF. Reference page.