Malacostraca - Decapoda - Raninidae

Full reference: A. B. Tucker. 1998. Systematics of the Raninidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) with accounts of three new genera and two new species. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 111(2):320-371

Belongs to Laeviranina according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2000

See also Karasawa et al. 2014, Schweitzer et al. 2006, Schweitzer et al. 2010 and Tucker 1998

Sister taxa: Raninoides acanthocolus, Raninoides araucana, Raninoides asper, Raninoides barnardi, Raninoides benedicti, Raninoides borealis, Raninoides bournei, Raninoides bouvieri, Raninoides budapestiniensis, Raninoides crosnieri, Raninoides dickersoni, Raninoides eugenensis, Raninoides fabianii, Raninoides fulgidus, Raninoides fulungensis, Raninoides glabra, Raninoides goedertorum, Raninoides gottschei, Raninoides hendersoni, Raninoides hollandica, Raninoides intermedius, Raninoides javanus, Raninoides lamarcki, Raninoides longifrons, Raninoides louisianensis, Raninoides madurensis, Raninoides mexicanus, Raninoides morrisi, Raninoides nodai, Raninoides notopoides, Raninoides ombonii, Raninoides oregonensis, Raninoides perarmata, Raninoides personatus, Raninoides pliocenicus, Raninoides proracanthus, Raninoides pulchra, Raninoides quadrispinosa, Raninoides rathbunae, Raninoides rioturbiensis, Raninoides serratifrons, Raninoides sinuosus, Raninoides slaki, Raninoides toehoepae, Raninoides treldenaesensis, Raninoides vaderensis, Raninoides washburnei, Laeviranina pulchra, Laeviranina perarmata, Laeviranina keyesi, Laeviranina hollandica, Laeviranina ovalis, Laeviranina simplicissima, Laeviranina pororariensis, Laeviranina fabianii

Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Pulali Point, Aldwell Formation (Eocene of Washington)

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