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Trapezia

Malacostraca - Decapoda - Trapeziidae

Taxonomy
Trapezia was named by Latreille (1825). It is extant. It is the type genus of Trapeziidae.

It was assigned to Eriphinae by Dana (1851); to Trapeziinae by Karasawa (1993); and to Trapeziidae by Karasawa and Schweitzer (2006) and Schweitzer et al. (2010).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1825Trapezia Latreille
1851Trapezia Dana p. 128
1993Trapezia Karasawa p. 65
2006Trapezia Karasawa and Schweitzer p. 49
2010Trapezia Schweitzer et al. p. 123

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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
RankNameAuthor
classMalacostraca()
subclassEumalacostracaGrobben 1892
CaridoidaHessler 1982
orderDecapoda
suborderPleocyemataBurkenroad 1963
Reptantia(Boas)
MeiuraSaint Laurent 1980
infraorderBrachyura()
superfamilyTrapezioideaMiers 1886
familyTrapeziidaeMiers 1886
genusTrapeziaLatreille 1825

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. Trapezia Latreille 1825
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Trapezia brevispinosa Karasawa 1993
Trapezia digitalis Latreille 1828
Trapezia ferruginea Latreille 1825
Trapezia glaessner Muller 1975
Trapezia glaessneri Muller 1975
Trapezia prisca Portell and Collins 2004
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: chitinc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: epifaunalo
Diet: carnivoreo
Vision: well-developedc
Created: 2008-01-28 11:51:24
Modified: 2022-05-13 13:34:01
Source: o = order, c = class
References: Aberhan 1992, Turnsek 1997

Age range

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Early/Lower Miocene to the top of the Holocene or 23.03000 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 15.97 Ma

Collections (6 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Miocene23.03 - 15.97Jamaica T. prisca (228737)
Early/Lower Miocene - Middle Miocene23.03 - 11.608Japan (Shizuoka) T. sp., T. brevispinosa (202476)
Badenian13.65 - 12.7Hungary T. glaessneri (207754 207755)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Mexico T. maculata (147260) T. sp. (147227)