Speocarcinus Explained
Speocarcinus is a genus of crabs in the family Xanthidae, containing six extant species,[1] one fossil species[2] from the Late Miocene,[3] one fossil species from the Eocene (Lutetian)[4] and one fossil species from the Early Eocene (Ypresian):[5]
- Speocarcinus carolinensis Stimpson, 1859
- Speocarcinus granulimanus Rathbun, 1894
- Speocarcinus lobatus Guinot, 1969
- Speocarcinus meloi D'Incao & Gomes da Silva, 1992
- Speocarcinus monotuberculatus Falder & Rabalais, 1986
- Speocarcinus spinicarpus Guinot, 1969
- † Speocarcinus berglundi Tucker et al., 1994
- † Speocarcinus tuberculatus (Beschin, De Angeli, Checchi & Zarantonello, 2005); originally described as a species of Paraxanthosia, transferred to the genus Speocarcinus by Beschin et al. (2012)
- † Speocarcinus latus Beschin et al., 2016
Notes and References
- . 2008 . 17 . 1–286 . Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world . Peter K. L. Ng . Danièle Guinot . Peter J. F. Davie . amp . PDF.
- . 2009 . Suppl. 21 . 1–109 . A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans . Sammy De Grave . N. Dean Pentcheff . Shane T. Ahyong . PDF. etal.
- Annette B. Tucker . Rodney M. Feldmann . Charles L. Powell II . amp . 1994 . Speocarcinus berglundi n. sp. (Decapoda: Brachyura), a new crab from the Imperial Formation (Late Miocene–Late Pliocene) of Southern California . . 68 . 4 . 800–807 . 1306148.
- Book: Claudio Beschin . Antonio De Angeli . Andrea Checchi . Giannino Zarantonello . 2012 . Crostacei del giacimento eocenico di Grola presso Spagnago di Cornedo Vicentino (Vicenza, Italia Settentrionale) (Decapoda, Stomapoda, Isopoda) . Museo di Archeologia e Scienze Naturali “G. Zannato”, Montecchio Maggiore, Vicenza . 1–100 . 978-88-900625-2-0 .
- Claudio Beschin . Alessandra Busulini . Giuliano Tessier . Roberto Zorzin . 2016 . I crostacei associati a coralli nell’Eocene inferiore dell’area di Bolca (Verona e Vicenza, Italia nordorientale) . Memorie del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona - 2. serie. Sezione Scienze della Terra . 9 . 1–189 . 978-88-89230-29-9 .
