Malacostraca - Decapoda - Penaeidae

Full reference: A. Garassino and C. Beschin. 1999. Penaeus vanzii n. sp. e Penaeus sorbinii n. sp. (Crustacea, Decapoda) dell'Oligocene della Valle del Ponte (Laverda) e di Salcedo (Vicenza, N. Italia). Atti della Societa Italiana di Scienze Naturalie del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano 140(2):189-208

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

See also Garassino and Beschin 1999

Sister taxa: Penaeus arambourgi, Penaeus barmerensis, Penaeus bolcensis, Penaeus cornappensis, Penaeus esculentus, Penaeus furensis, Penaeus glaessneri, Penaeus hamleti, Penaeus kapurdii, Penaeus latisulcatus, Penaeus maddeni, Penaeus natator, Penaeus obtusus, Penaeus plebejus, Penaeus sharpii, Penaeus smyrnacus, Penaeus sorbinii, Penaeus spectabilis, Penaeus tenuicauda, Penaeus vernassensis, Penaeus wenasogensis, Pseudocrangon crassicaudus

Type specimen: Its type locality is Ponte, which is in a Rupelian shallow subtidal marl/tuff in the Castelgomberto Formation of Italy

Ecology: infaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Ponte

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Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.