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 and Rathbun 1918
Sister taxa: Callinectes alabamensis, Callinectes bellicosus, Callinectes bellicosusdup, Callinectes declivis, Callinectes jamaicensis, Callinectes paraensis, Callinectes quilonensis, Callinectes sapidus, Callinectes toxodes
Type specimen: USNM 324261, a claw. Its type locality is USGS 6020a, Canal Zone, which is in an Aquitanian marine shale/mudstone in the Culebra Formation of Panama.
Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Brazil (3 collections), Panama (1)
Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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