Malacostraca - Decapoda - Cancridae
Full reference: R. M. Feldmann and R. E. Fordyce. 1996. A new cancrid crab from New Zealand . New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 39:509-513
Belongs to Lobocarcinus according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2010
See also Schweitzer and Feldmann 2000
Sister taxa: Lobocarcinus aegypticus, Lobocarcinus catalaunicus, Lobocarcinus indicus, Lobocarcinus lumacopius, Lobocarcinus paulinowuerttemburgensis, Lobocarcinus paulinowurtembergensis, Lobocarcinus pentanodosus, Lobocarcinus santosi, Lobocarcinus sismondae, Lobocarcinus sismondai
Type specimen: OU41147, a shell. Its type locality is I43/f112, which is in an Altonian marine limestone in the Caversham Sandstone Formation of New Zealand.
Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore
Distribution: found only at I43/f112
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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