Family Parthenopidae Macleay 1838 (crab)

Malacostraca - Decapoda - Parthenopidae

Parent taxon: Parthenopoidea according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2020

See also Collins et al. 2003, Karasawa 1993, Luque et al. 2017, Rathbun 1918, Rathbun 1926, Schweitzer and Feldmann 2002 and Schweitzer et al. 2010

Sister taxon: Mimilambrus

Subtaxa: Agolambrus Branchiolambrus Dairoidinae Daldorfiinae Heterocrypta Mesolambrus Parthenopinae

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Type: Parthenope

Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Costa Rica (1 collection), Italy (1), Mexico (1), Panama (1), United States (9: California, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virgin Islands)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Italy (2)

• Pliocene of Jamaica (1), Panama (2), United States (1: Florida), Venezuela (1)

• Miocene to Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (1)

• Miocene of Brazil (2), Brunei Darussalam (1), the Dominican Republic (4), Fiji (1), Haiti (1), Hungary (8), Italy (1), Japan (13), Malaysia (8), Panama (1), United States (1: California), Venezuela (3)

• Oligocene of Hungary (1), Italy (2), United States (1: Washington)

• Eocene of Hungary (1), Italy (16), Mexico (1), Spain (2), the United Kingdom (2), United States (3: North Carolina, South Carolina)

• Paleogene of Hungary (1)

• Cretaceous of France (1)

Total: 96 collections including 125 occurrences

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