Malacostraca - Decapoda - Lyreididae
Alternative combination: Lyreidus (Lysirude) waitakiensis
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 Lyreidus according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2010
See also Feldmann 1992, Feldmann and Keys 1992 and Karasawa et al. 2014
Sister taxa: Lyreidus (Lyreidus), Lyreidus antarcticus, Lyreidus bennetti, Lyreidus brevifrons, Lyreidus elegans, Lyreidus fastigatus, Lyreidus hookeri, Lyreidus hungaricus, Lyreidus lebuensis, Lyreidus rosenkrantzi, Lyreidus stenops, Lyreidus teodorii, Lyreidus teshimai, Lyreidus tridentatus, Lysirude channeri, Lysirude paronae, Lysirude nitidus, Lysirude hookeri, Lysirude griffini
Type specimen: Its type locality is Black Point, Waitaki Valley, which is in an Eocene/Eocene marine sandstone in the Tapui Formation of New Zealand
Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Eocene of New Zealand (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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