Persephona enigmatica Todd and Collins 2005 (crab)

Malacostraca - Decapoda - Leucosiidae

Full reference: J. A. Todd and J. S. H. Collins. 2005. Neogene and Quaternary crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda) collected from Costa Rica and Panama by members of the Panama Paleontology Project. Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum 32:53-85

Belongs to Persephona according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2010

See also Luque et al. 2017 and Todd and Collins 2005

Sister taxa: Persephona bigranulata, Persephona invalida, Persephona manningi, Persephona mediterranea, Persephona niemeyeri, Persephona prepunctata, Persephona punctata, Persephona punctatus, Persephona rodesae

Type specimen: F1674, a carapace

Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore

Distribution:

• Pliocene of Costa Rica (1 collection), Panama (1)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Colombia (1)

Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence

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