Malacostraca - Decapoda - Raninidae
Alternative combination: Ranilia pororariensis
Full reference: M. F. Glaessner. 1980. New Cretaceous and Tertiary crabs (Crustacea: Brachyura) from Australia and New Zealand. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 104(6):171-192
Belongs to Laeviranina according to R. M. Feldmann and I. W. Keys 1992
See also Feldmann and Maxwell 1990, Glaessner 1980, Karasawa et al. 2014, 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 goedertorum, Laeviranina perarmata, Laeviranina keyesi, Laeviranina ovalis, Laeviranina simplicissima, Laeviranina pulchra, Laeviranina fabianii, Laeviranina hollandica
Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore
Distribution: found only at Te Miko (Unit 2) (Eocene of New Zealand)
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