Carupa Dana 1851 (swimming crab)
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Malacostraca - Decapoda - Portunidae
Full reference: J. D. Dana. 1851. On the Classification of the Cancroidea; III. Zoology. Scientific Intelligence. American Journal of Science and Arts, second series, XII 34:121-131
Parent taxon: Carupinae according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2021
See also Dana 1851, Karasawa and Schweitzer 2006, Karasawa et al. 2008 and Schweitzer et al. 2010
Sister taxa: Catoptrus, Euronectes, Laleonectes, Libystes, Neptocarcinus, Rakosia, Richerellus, Atoportunus
Subtaxa: Carupa tenuipes
Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore
Distribution: found only at Visegrad (Miocene of Hungary)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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