Carpilioidea

Superfamily of crabs

Carpilioidea
Temporal range: Paleocene–Recent
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Carpilius maculatus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
(unranked): Reptantia
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. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-06.
  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 Lazăr (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. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-12.

External links

  • Media related to Carpilioidea at Wikimedia Commons
  • Data related to Carpilioidea at Wikispecies
Taxon identifiers
Carpilioidea