Persephona manningi 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 Todd and Collins 2005

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

Type specimen: F1676, a carapace

Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Escudo de Veraguas Island (Pliocene of Panama)

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