Upogebia striata Karasawa and Kishimoto 1996 (mud shrimp)

Malacostraca - Decapoda - Upogebiidae

Full reference: H. Karasawa and S. Kishimoto. 1996. Two new species of decapod crustaceans from the middle Miocene Katsuta Group, Japan. Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum 23:35-37

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

See also Karasawa and Kishimoto 1996

Sister taxa: Upogebia (Upogebia), Upogebia affinis, Upogebia australiensis, Upogebia barti, Upogebia boehmi, Upogebia bowerbankii, Upogebia clypeata, Upogebia darwinii, Upogebia digitata, Upogebia dromana, Upogebia eocenica, Upogebia hibiki, Upogebia imperfecta, Upogebia kowai, Upogebia lambrechtsi, Upogebia meyeri, Upogebia midwayensis, Upogebia miocenica, Upogebia mizunamiensis, Upogebia munsteri, Upogebia neglecta, Upogebia obscura, Upogebia perarolensis, Upogebia scabra, Upogebia stellata, Upogebia tanegashimensis, Upogebia tractabilis

Type specimen: Its type locality is Katsuta Group, which is in a Miocene marine sandstone in Japan

Ecology: infaunal detritivore

Distribution: found only at Katsuta Group

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