Mursia macdonaldi Rathbun 1918 (box crab)

Malacostraca - Decapoda - Calappidae

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

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

See also Rathbun 1918

Sister taxa: Mursia armata, Mursia aspina, Mursia australiensis, Mursia bekenuensis, Mursia circularis, Mursia creutzbergi, Mursia cristiata, Mursia curtispina, Mursia granulosa, Mursia harnicari, Mursia lienharti, Mursia marcusana, Mursia minuta, Mursia obscura, Mursia simplex, Mursia takahashii, Mursia yaquinensis

Type specimen: USNM 324229, a claw. Its type locality is USGS 6019g, Canal Zone, which is in an Aquitanian marine limestone in the Culebra Formation of Panama.

Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at USGS 6019g, Canal Zone

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