Malacostraca - Decapoda - Pilumnidae
Full reference: G. Samouelle. 1819. The Entomologist's Useful Compendium, or An Introduction to the Knowledge of British Insects. London.
Parent taxon: Pilumnoidea according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2022
See also Karasawa 1993, Karasawa and Schweitzer 2006, Lima et al. 2024, Luque et al. 2017, Martin and Davis 2001, Samouelle 1819, Schweitzer 2005, Schweitzer et al. 2004, Schweitzer et al. 2006 and Schweitzer et al. 2010
Sister taxa: Galenidae, Tanaochelidae
Subtaxa: Calmaniinae Eumedoninae Pilumninae Pirabacarcinus Rhizopinae Xenophthalmodinae
Type: Pilumnus
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Barbados (1 collection), Fiji (1), Jamaica (1), Malaysia (1), Mexico (1), Panama (1), the Philippines (1), United States (3: Florida, Virgin Islands)
• Pliocene of Italy (4), Jamaica (1), Japan (1), Panama (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (2)
• Neogene of Poland (1)
• Miocene of Brazil (1), Chile (5), the Dominican Republic (2), Hungary (13), Italy (1), Japan (10), Malaysia (3), Malta (1), Poland (1), Slovakia (1), Spain (1), Ukraine (1)
• Oligocene of Hungary (1), Italy (2)
• Eocene of Hungary (1), India (1), Italy (16), Mexico (1), Spain (3), United States (6: North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas)
• Paleocene of United States (1: Alabama)
• Paleogene of Hungary (1)
Total: 93 collections including 141 occurrences