Carupa Dana 1851 (swimming crab)

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

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Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Visegrad (Miocene of Hungary)

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