Malacostraca - Decapoda - Leucosiidae
Parent taxon: Leucosiidae according to H. Karasawa et al. 2019
See also Collins et al. 2003, Luque et al. 2017, Schweitzer et al. 2010 and Todd and Collins 2005
Sister taxa: Cryptocneminae, Leucosiinae, Philyrinae, Zannatoius
Subtaxa: Arcania Cabrillia Ebalia Heteronucia Hiplyra Ilia Iliacantha Ixa Leucosilia Leucosiraja Lyphira Merocryptus Myra Myropsis Nucia Nursia Paranursia Persephona Philyra Pseudophilyra Pyrhila Randallia Ryphila Speloeophorus Tokoyo Uhlias
Type: Ebalia
Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Costa Rica (1 collection), Italy (11), Jamaica (3), Japan (1), Panama (2), United States (12: California, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Costa Rica (1), Italy (2)
• Pliocene of Belgium (2), Costa Rica (6), Italy (1), Jamaica (1), Japan (6), the Netherlands Antilles (1), Panama (7), United States (2: California, North Carolina)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Colombia (1), the Dominican Republic (3), United States (5: North Carolina, Virginia)
• Neogene of Fiji (1)
• Miocene of Brazil (1), Brunei Darussalam (6), Cuba (1), the Dominican Republic (17), Greece (1), Hungary (4), India (2), Indonesia (2), Iran (1), Italy (1), Japan (12), Malaysia (16), Mexico (2), Panama (3), the Philippines (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1), United States (1: South Carolina), Venezuela (2)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Cuba (1)
• Oligocene of Italy (1), United States (1: Oregon)
Total: 146 collections including 174 occurrences