Malacostraca - Decapoda - Leucosiidae
Synonym: Guaia Leach 1817
Parent taxon: Ebaliinae according to H. Karasawa et al. 2019
See also Luque et al. 2017, Rathbun 1919, Rathbun 1926, Schweitzer et al. 2010, Sepkoski 2002 and Todd and Collins 2005
Sister taxa: Arcania, Cabrillia, Ebalia, Heteronucia, Hiplyra, Ilia, Iliacantha, Ixa, Ixoides, Leucosilia, Leucosiraja, Lyphira, Merocryptus, Myra, Myropsis, Nucia, Nursia, Paranursia, Philyra, Pseudophilyra, Pyrhila, Randallia, Ryphila, Speloeophorus, Tokoyo, Uhlias
Subtaxa: Persephona bigranulata Persephona enigmatica Persephona invalida Persephona manningi Persephona mediterranea Persephona niemeyeri Persephona prepunctata Persephona punctata Persephona punctatus Persephona rodesae
Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Jamaica (2 collections), Panama (1), United States (4: Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Costa Rica (1)
• Pliocene of Costa Rica (1), Jamaica (1), Panama (2), United States (2: California, North Carolina)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Colombia (1), the Dominican Republic (2), United States (5: North Carolina, Virginia)
• Miocene of Cuba (1), the Dominican Republic (17), Mexico (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1), United States (1: South Carolina)
• Oligocene of United States (1: Oregon)
Total: 44 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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