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Calliax

Malacostraca - Decapoda - Eucalliacidae

Taxonomy
Calliax was named by de Saint Laurent (1973). It is extant.

It was assigned to Eucalliinae by Manning and Felder (1991) and Karasawa (1993); to Callianassidae by Dana (1852) and Schweitzer et al. (2010); to Eucalliacinae by Charbonnier et al. (2013); and to Eucalliacidae by Schweitzer et al. (2023).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1852Calliax Dana
1973Calliax de Saint Laurent
1991Calliax Manning and Felder p. 783
1993Calliax Karasawa p. 35
2010Calliax Schweitzer et al.
2013Calliax Charbonnier et al. p. 106 figs. 2A, B
2023Calliax Schweitzer et al. p. 16

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
Deuteropoda
Mandibulata
PancrustaceaZrzavý and Štys 1997
RankNameAuthor
Hymenostraca(Rolfe 1969)
superclassMulticrustaceaRegier et al. 2010
classMalacostraca()
subclassEumalacostracaGrobben 1892
CaridoidaHessler 1982
orderDecapoda
suborderPleocyemataBurkenroad 1963
infraorderAxiideaSaint Laurent 1979
familyEucalliacidae(Manning and Felder 1991)
genusCalliaxde Saint Laurent 1973

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. Calliax de Saint Laurent 1973
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Calliax lobata de Gaillande and Lagardère 1966
Calliax punica De Saint Luarent and Manning 1982
Calliax whiteavesi Woodward 1896
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: chitinc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: infaunalinfrao
Diet: detritivoreinfrao
Vision: well-developedc
Created: 2022-08-23 13:23:00
Modified: 2022-09-26 19:20:17
Source: infrao = infraorder, c = class
References: Aberhan 1992, Valdez and Clapham 2023

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Campanian to the top of the Thanetian or 83.50000 to 56.00000 Ma

Collections (5 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Santonian - Maastrichtian86.3 - 66.0Canada (British Columbia) Callianassa whiteavesii (139009 139895)
Campanian - Maastrichtian83.6 - 66.0Canada (Alberta) Callianassa whiteavesii (140052)
Late/Upper Campanian83.5 - 70.6Canada (British Columbia) C. whiteavesi (122931)
Thanetian59.2 - 56.0Pakistan C. sp. (226449)