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Calappa costaricana

Malacostraca - Decapoda - Calappidae

Taxonomy
Calappa costaricana was named by Rathbun (1918). Its type specimen is USNM 324240 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is USGS 4269, Port Limon, which is in a Piacenzian/Gelasian marine siliciclastic in the Moin Formation of Costa Rica.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1918Calappa costaricana Rathbun p. 156 figs. Plate 57, Fig. 24
2010Calappa costaricana Schweitzer et al. p. 82
2017Calappa costaricana Luque et al. p. 31

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
—Deuteropoda
—Mandibulata
—PancrustaceaZrzavý and Štys 1997
—Hymenostraca(Rolfe 1969)
superclassMulticrustaceaRegier et al. 2010
classMalacostraca()
RankNameAuthor
subclassEumalacostracaGrobben 1892
—CaridoidaHessler 1982
orderDecapoda
suborderPleocyemataBurkenroad 1963
—Reptantia(Boas)
—MeiuraSaint Laurent 1980
infraorderBrachyura()
—Eubrachyurade Saint Laurent 1980
—HeterotremataGuinot 1977
superfamilyCalappoideaDe Haan 1833
familyCalappidaeDe Haan 1833
genusCalappaWeber 1795
speciescostaricana

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.

†Calappa costaricana Rathbun 1918
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Diagnosis
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