†Vanuachela Kammerer 2006 (crab)
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Malacostraca - Decapoda - Raninidae
Synonym: Vanua Rathbun 1945 [replaced name]
Full reference: C. F. Kammerer. 2006. Notes on some preoccupied names in Arthropoda. Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica 31:269-271
Parent taxon: Raninidae according to C. F. Kammerer 2006
See also Schweitzer et al. 2010 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Cyrtorhininae, Notopodinae, Ranininae, Raninoidinae, Sabahranina, Symethinae
Subtaxa: Vanua linearius
Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Fiji (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
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