Superfamily Grapsoidea MacLeay 1838 (crab)

Malacostraca - Decapoda

Parent taxon: Thoracotremata according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2010

See also Feldmann and Keys 1992, Feldmann et al. 2008, Karasawa 1993, Luque et al. 2017 and Schweitzer and Karasawa 2004

Sister taxa: Cryptochiroidea, Ocypodoidea, Oxypodoidea, Palicoidea, Pinnotheroidea

Subtaxa: Daragrapsus Daranyia Gecarcinidae Glyptograpsidae Grapsidae Grapsus Percnidae Plagusiidae Pseudodaranyia Sesarmidae Varunidae Xenograpsidae

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Ecology: infaunal detritivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Bermuda (2 collections), Brazil (1), Cuba (1), Haiti (1), Jamaica (3), Mexico (2), Puerto Rico (1), Spain (1), United States (17: California, Florida, Flrida, Maryland, Pennslyvania, South Carolina, Texas, Virgin Islands)

• Pliocene to Holocene of United States (1: California)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Costa Rica (1)

• Pliocene of Fiji (2), Italy (1), New Zealand (1)

• Neogene of Poland (1)

• Miocene of Argentina (2), Brazil (2), Hungary (10), Italy (2), Japan (17), Mexico (1), New Zealand (1), United States (2: Oregon)

• Oligocene of Italy (5), Japan (2), United States (3: Washington)

• Eocene of Argentina (1), Italy (5)

• Paleogene of Hungary (1)

Total: 90 collections including 108 occurrences

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