Malacostraca - Decapoda - Xanthidae

Full reference: D. Guinot. 1967. Recherches preliminaires sur les groupements naturels chez Crustacs Decapodes Brachyoures. II. Les anciens genres Micropanope Stimpson et Medaeus Dana. Bulletin du Musum national d'Histoire naturelle (Paris). ser. 2 39(2):345-374

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

See also Beschin et al. 2016 and Schweitzer et al. 2010

Sister taxa: Cycloxanthops, Demania, Garthiope, Lachnopodus, Leotodius, Leptodius, Liagore, Macromedaeus, Megamia, Metopoxantho, Micropanope, Palaeoxanthops, Paraxanthias, Paraxanthodes, Paraxanthus, Xanthias, Xantho, Xanthodius

Subtaxa: Nanocassiope alcocki Nanocassiope melanodactylus Nanocassiope secretanae

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Ecology: infaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Rama di Bolca (Eocene of Italy)

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