Mursia obscura 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 M. J. Rathbun 1918

See also Luque et al. 2017 and Schweitzer et al. 2010

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 macdonaldi, Mursia marcusana, Mursia minuta, Mursia simplex, Mursia takahashii, Mursia yaquinensis

Type specimen: USNM 324225. Its type locality is USGS 6010, north of Pedro Miguel locks, which is in an Aquitanian marine claystone in the Culebra Formation of Panama.

Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at USGS 6010, north of Pedro Miguel locks

Show more details


Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.


Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.