Malacostraca - Decapoda - Upogebiidae
Full reference: R. M. Feldmann, C. E. Schweitzer, P. A. Maxwell and B. M. Kelley. 2008. Fossil isopod and decapod crustaceans from the Kowai Formation (Pliocene) near Makikihi, South Canterbury, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 51:43-58
Belongs to Upogebia according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2010
See also Feldmann et al. 2008
Sister taxa: Upogebia (Upogebia), Upogebia affinis, Upogebia australiensis, Upogebia barti, Upogebia boehmi, Upogebia bowerbankii, Upogebia clypeata, Upogebia darwinii, Upogebia digitata, Upogebia dromana, Upogebia eocenica, Upogebia hibiki, Upogebia imperfecta, Upogebia lambrechtsi, Upogebia meyeri, Upogebia midwayensis, Upogebia miocenica, Upogebia mizunamiensis, Upogebia munsteri, Upogebia neglecta, Upogebia obscura, Upogebia perarolensis, Upogebia scabra, Upogebia stellata, Upogebia striata, Upogebia tanegashimensis, Upogebia tractabilis
Type specimen: Its type locality is Makikihi River, which is in a Piacenzian marine sandstone in the Kowai Formation of New Zealand
Ecology: infaunal detritivore
Distribution: found only at Makikihi River
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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