A new subfamily classification of the highly diversified Dorippidae H. Milne Edwards, 1837 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Dorippoidea), using morphological, molecular and palaeotonlogical data, with special emphasis on its unique female reproductive system
Author
Guinot, Danièle
Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité (ISYEB), Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, EPHE, Université des Antilles, case postale 53, 57 rue Cuvier, F- 75231 Paris cedex 05 (France) daniele. guinot @ mnhn. fr Dedicated to the memory of my colleague and dearest friend Ngan Kee NG (1966 - 2022)
guinot@mnhn.fr
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Zoosystema
2023
2023-06-05
45
9
225
372
journal article
10.5252/zoosystema2023v45a9
1638-9387
8071253
urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:69C34731-8C25-4A1E-B336-B222CD3CBAC3
Ethusa evae
Müller & Collins, 1991
Ethusa evae
Müller & Collins, 1991: 66
, fig. 3h, pl. 4, figs 1, 2. — Pálfy
et al.
2008: Catalogue. — De Angeli
et al.
2010: 176. — Schweitzer
et al.
2010: 80; 2021: 3. — Baldanza
et al.
2017: 52. — Beschin
et al.
2019: table 1. — Sasaki 2019: 7814. — Van Bakel
et al.
2020: fig. 10.15.
REMARKS
Ethusa evae
, from the Upper Eocene (Priabonian),
Hungary
, has a subsquare carapace, well-developed outer orbital spines and fairly wide orbits. These characters are not typical of either
Ethusa
or an ethusid and we agree with Müller & Collins (1991: 67) that the outline of
E. evae
is somewhat reminiscent of
Binkhorstia ubaghsi
(Van Binkhorst, 1857)
from the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian). The identification of this species, in any case not a dorippoid, should be carefully reconsidered.