Cicarnus Karasawa and Fudouji 2000 (crab)

Malacostraca - Decapoda - Carcinidae

Full reference: H. Karasawa and Y. Fudouji. 2000. Palaeogene decapod Crustacea from the Kishima and Okinoshima Groups, Jyushu, Japan. Paleontological Research 4(4):239-253

Parent taxon: Carcininae according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2021

See also Karasawa and Fudouji 2000, Karasawa and Schweitzer 2006, Karasawa et al. 2008 and Schweitzer et al. 2010

Sister taxa: Carcinus, Miopipus, Portumnus, Xaiva

Subtaxa: Cicarnus fumiae

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Type: Cicarnus fumiae

Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Okinoshima (Eocene of Japan)

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