Parthenope pleistocenica Rathbun 1918 (crab)

Malacostraca - Decapoda - Parthenopidae

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

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

See also Rathbun 1918

Sister taxa: Parthenope bachmayeri, Parthenope bittneri, Parthenope chiampensis, Parthenope clypeformis, Parthenope jugula, Parthenope loczyi, Parthenope menini, Parthenope neocomiensis, Parthenope nummulitica, Parthenope obscura, Parthenope panamensis, Parthenope prisca, Parthenope szaboi, Parthenope tetenyensis, Parthenope trituberculata, Parthenope venezuelensis, Lambrus nummuliticus, Lambrus mediterraneus, Lambrus triangulus

Type specimen: USNM 324247. Its type locality is USGS 5850, Mount Hope, which is in a Pleistocene marine mudstone in Panama.

Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at USGS 5850, Mount Hope

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