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
Type: Pilumnoplax urpiniana
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Viaplax in the database
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