Family Blepharipodidae Boyko 2002 (decapod)

Malacostraca - Decapoda - Blepharipodidae

Full reference: C. B. Boyko. 2002. A worldwide revision of the Recent and fossil sand crabs of the Albuneidae Stimpson and Blepharipodidae, new family (Crustacea, Decapoda, Anomura, Hippoidea). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 272:1-272

Parent taxon: Hippoidea according to C.E. Schweitzer et al. 2023

See also Boyko 2002, Nyborg and Vega 2008 and Schweitzer et al. 2010

Sister taxa: Albuneidae, Hippidae

Subtaxa: Blepharipoda Lophomastix

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Type: Blepharipoda

Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore

Distribution:

• Miocene of United States (1: Washington collection)

• Oligocene of United States (2: Washington)

• Eocene to Oligocene of United States (2: Washington)

Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence

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