Malacostraca - Decapoda - Portunidae
Full reference: M. J. Rathbun. 1918. Decapod crustaceans from the Panama region. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 103:123-184
Belongs to Callinectes according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2010
See also Luque et al. 2017, Rathbun 1918, Rathbun 1919 and Rathbun 1937
Sister taxa: Callinectes alabamensis, Callinectes bellicosus, Callinectes bellicosusdup, Callinectes jamaicensis, Callinectes paraensis, Callinectes quilonensis, Callinectes reticulatus, Callinectes sapidus, Callinectes toxodes
Type specimen: USNM 324262, a claw. Its type locality is USGS 5882i, Rio Banano, which is in a Piacenzian marine siliciclastic in the Rio Banano Formation of Costa Rica.
Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Costa Rica (2 collections)
• Miocene to Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (2)
• Miocene of Brazil (1), the Dominican Republic (6)
• Eocene of Panama (1)
Total: 12 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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