Upogebia kowai Feldmann et al. 2008 (mud shrimp)

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

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