Viaplax Karasawa and Kato 2003 (crab)

Malacostraca - Decapoda - Euryplacidae

Full reference: H. Karasawa and H. Kato. 2003. The family Goneplacidae MacLeay, 1838 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura): Systematics, phylogeny, and fossil records. Paleontological Research 7(2):129-151

Parent taxon: Euryplacidae according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2010

See also Karasawa and Kato 2003 and Karasawa and Schweitzer 2006

Sister taxa: Alponella, Baldoplax, Chirinocarcinus, Chlinocephalus, Corallicarcinus, Corallioplax, Eucrate, Euryplax, Orbitoplax, Palaeopsopheticus, Prealpiplax, Simonellia, Stoaplax

Subtaxa: Viaplax urpiniana

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Type: Pilumnoplax urpiniana

Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Viaplax in the database

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