Ethusa chibai Karasawa 1993 (crab)

Malacostraca - Decapoda - Ethusidae

Full reference: H. Karasawa. 1993. Cenozoic Decapod Crustacea from Southwest Japan. Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum (20)1-92

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

See also Karasawa 1993

Sister taxa: Ethusa berica, Ethusa evae, Ethusa mascarone, Ethusa octospinosa, Ethusa popognensis

Type specimen: MFM142002, a carapace. Its type locality is Kinjo, which is in a Pliocene marine mudstone in the Tamari Formation of Japan.

Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Kinjo

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