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Scylla costata

Malacostraca - Decapoda - Portunidae

Taxonomy
Scylla costata was named by Rathbun (1919). Its type specimen is ANSP 2267, a carapace, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Lower half of Yaqui del Norte River valley, which is in a Miocene/Pliocene marine siliciclastic in the Dominican Republic.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1919Scylla costata Rathbun p. 170 figs. Pl 4, figs 1,2; pl 5, figs 1,2; pl 6, figs 3-5
1930Scylla costata Rathbun p. 5
2006Scylla costata Schweitzer et al. p. 124
2010Scylla costata Schweitzer et al. p. 110
2017Scylla costata Luque et al. p. 12

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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()
subclassEumalacostracaGrobben 1892
RankNameAuthor
CaridoidaHessler 1982
orderDecapoda
suborderPleocyemataBurkenroad 1963
Reptantia(Boas)
MeiuraSaint Laurent 1980
infraorderBrachyura()
Eubrachyurade Saint Laurent 1980
HeterotremataGuinot 1977
superfamilyPortunoideaRafinesque 1815
familyPortunidaeRafinesque 1815
subfamilyNecronectinaeGlaessner 1928
genusScyllaDe Haan 1833
speciescostata

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.

Scylla costata Rathbun 1919
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available