Macroacaena marionae Tucker 1998 (crab)

Malacostraca - Decapoda - Lyreididae

Full reference: A. B. Tucker. 1998. Systematics of the Raninidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) with accounts of three new genera and two new species. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 111(2):320-371

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

Sister taxa: Macroacaena alseana, Macroacaena alseanus, Macroacaena bidentata, Macroacaena bispinulata, Macroacaena bispinulatus, Macroacaena chica, Macroacaena elongata, Macroacaena franconia, Macroacaena fudouji, Macroacaena fudoujii, Macroacaena leucosiae, Macroacaena naselensis, Macroacaena rosenkrantzi, Macroacaena schencki, Macroacaena succedanus, Macroacaena teshimai, Macroacaena tridens, Macroacaena venturai, Macroacaena willapensis, Macroacaena yanini, Carinaranina naselensis, Carinaranina marionae

Type specimen: Its type locality is RB-32, Kydikabbit Point, which is in a Priabonian submarine fan siltstone in the Hoko River Formation of Washington

Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Macroacaena marionae in the database

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