Speocarcinus

Speocarcinus
Temporal range: Late Miocene–Recent
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Infraorder: Brachyura
Family: Xanthidae
Subfamily: Speocarcininae
Števčić, 2005
Genus: Speocarcinus
Stimpson, 1859

Speocarcinus is a genus of crabs in the family Xanthidae, containing six extant species,[1] and one fossil species[2] from the Late Miocene:[3]

References

  1. Peter K. L. Ng, Danièle Guinot & Peter J. F. Davie (2008). "Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 17: 1–286.
  2. Sammy De Grave; N. Dean Pentcheff; Shane T. Ahyong; et al. (2009). "A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. Suppl. 21: 1–109.
  3. Annette B. Tucker, Rodney M. Feldmann and Charles L. Powell, II (1994). "Speocarcinus berglundi n. sp. (Decapoda: Brachyura), a new crab from the Imperial Formation (Late Miocene–Late Pliocene) of Southern California". Journal of Paleontology. 68 (4): 800–807. JSTOR 1306148.


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