Carpilioidea

Carpilioidea
Temporal range: Paleocene–Recent
Carpilius maculatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Infraorder: Brachyura
Section: Eubrachyura
Subsection: Heterotremata
Superfamily: Carpilioidea
Ortmann, 1893
Families
  • Carpiliidae Ortmann, 1893
  • Paleoxanthopsidae Schweitzer, 2003
  • Tumidocarcinidae Schweitzer, 2005
  • Zanthopsidae Vía, 1959
Harpactoxanthopsis quadrilobata fossil, Middle Eocene, Venetia Region, northern Italy

Carpilioidea is a superfamily of crabs containing a single extant family, Carpiliidae and three extinct families.[1] The modern range of the family includes the Indo-Pacific, Western Atlantic and Caribbean Sea.[2] The fossil record of the group extends back at least as far as the Paleocene.[3]

Genera

Carpiliidae Ortmann, 1893

  • Carpilius A. G. Desmarest, 1823
  • Eocarpilius Blow & Manning, 1996
  • Holcocarcinus Withers, 1924
  • Ocalina Rathbun, 1929
  • Palaeocarpilius A. Milne-Edwards, 1862
  • Paraocalina Beschin, Busulini, De Angeli & Tessier, 2007
  • Proxicarpilius Collins & Morris, 1978

Paleoxanthopsidae Schweitzer, 2003

  • Jakobsenius Schweitzer, 2005
  • Lobulata Schweitzer, Feldmann & Gingerich, 2004
  • Palaeoxantho Bishop, 1986
  • Palaeoxanthopsis Beurlen, 1958
  • Paraverrucoides Schweitzer, 2003
  • Remia Schweitzer, 2003
  • Rocacarcinus Schweitzer, 2005
  • Verrucoides Vega, Cosma, Coutiño, Feldmann, Nyborg, Schweitzer & Waugh, 2001

Tumidocarcinidae Schweitzer, 2005

  • Baricarcinus Casadío, De Angeli, Feldmann, Garassino, Hetler, Parras & Schweitzer, 2004
  • Cyclocorystes Bell, 1858
  • Lobonotus A. Milne-Edwards, 1863
  • Nitotacarcinus Schweitzer, Artal, Van Bakel, Jagt & Karasawa, 2007
  • Paratumidocarcinus Martins-Neto, 2001
  • Pulalius Schweitzer, Feldmann, Tucker & Berglund, 2000
  • Titanocarcinus A. Milne-Edwards, 1863
  • Tumidocarcinus Glaessner, 1960
  • Xanthilites Bell, 1858

Zanthopsidae Vía, 1959

  • Fredericia Collins & Jakobsen, 2003
  • Harpactocarcinus A. Milne-Edwards, 1862
  • Harpactoxanthopsis Vía, 1959
  • Martinetta Blow & Manning, 1997
  • Neozanthopsis Schweitzer, 2003
  • Zanthopsis M’Coy, 1849

References

  1. Sammy De Grave, N. Dean Pentcheff, Shane T. Ahyong et al. (2009). "A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. Suppl. 21: 1–109.
  2. Carrie E. Schweitzer (2000). "Tertiary Xanthoidea (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) from the west coast of North America". Journal of Crustacean Biology 20 (4): 715–742. doi:10.1651/0278-0372(2000)020[0715:TXCDBF]2.0.CO;2.
  3. Carrie E. Schweitzer, Rodney M. Feldmann & Iuliana Lazǎr (2009). "Fossil Crustacea (excluding Cirripedia and Ostracoda) in the University of Bucharest Collections, Romania, including two new species" (PDF). Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum 35: 1–14.

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