Iliacantha panamanica 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 Iliacantha according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2010

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

Sister taxa: Iliacantha globosa, Iliacantha liodactylus

Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Plantain Cays (Miocene to Miocene of Panama)

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