Malacostraca - Decapoda - Porcellanidae

Full reference: G. A. Bishop and R. W. Portell. 1989. Pliocene crab-sea star association from southwest Florida. Journal of Crustacean Biology 9(3):453-458

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

See also Bishop and Portell 1989 and Luque et al. 2017

Sister taxa: Petrolisthes avitus, Petrolisthes bittneri, Petrolisthes elongatus, Petrolisthes haydni, Petrolisthes lauensis, Petrolisthes lineatus, Petrolisthes magnus, Petrolisthes miocaenicus, Petrolisthes striatissimus, Petrolisthes tuberculatus, Petrolisthes vicetinus, Petrolisthes violacea

Type specimen: Its type locality is Construction site near El Jobean quarry, which is in a Piacenzian coastal sandstone in the Tamiami Formation of Florida

Ecology: epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Construction site near El Jobean quarry

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Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.