Goniochele armata Rathbun 1918 (crab)

Malacostraca - Decapoda - Goniochelidae

Full reference: M. J. Rathbun. 1918. Decapod crustaceans from the Panama region. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 103:123-184

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

See also Luque et al. 2017 and Rathbun 1918

Sister taxa: Goniochele angulata, Goniochele madseni

Type specimen: USN 324259, a claw. Its type locality is USGS 6020a, Canal Zone, which is in an Aquitanian marine shale/mudstone in the Culebra Formation of Panama.

Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at USGS 6020a, Canal Zone

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