Revision of the family Chasmocarcinidae Serène, 1964 (Crustacea, Brachyura, Goneplacoidea)
Author
Ng, Peter K. L.
Author
Castro, Peter
text
Zootaxa
2016
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journal article
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Subfamily
Chasmocarcininae Serène, 1964
Chasmocarcininae
Serène, 1964a
: 196
; 1964b: 185.—
Števčić 2005
: 108
; 2013: 186.—Ng
et al.
2008: 27, 76 [in list].—
Guinot
et al
. 2013
: 111
, 112, 113, 116, 118, 265.—
Davie et al. 2015b
: 946
; 2015c: 1082.
Diagnosis
. Antennular peduncle rounded to quadrate, distinctly swollen, completely filling fossa; normal aesthetascs. G1 typically longer than G2 (shorter in
Hephthopelta
s. str.
and
Tenagopelta
n. gen.
; G2 shorter than G
1 in
Angustopelta
n. gen.
and
Statommatia
n. gen.
). Vulvae distinct, moderately large, typically across most of thoracic sternite 6. Marine, from shallow water to depths of up to
1800 m
.
Type genus
.
Chasmocarcinus
Rathbun, 1898
Other genera included
:
Amboplax
n. gen.
Angustopelta
n. gen.
Camatopsis
Alcock & Anderson, 1899
Chasmocarcinops
Alcock, 1900
Chinommatia
n. gen.
Deltopelta
n. gen.
Hephthopelta
Alcock, 1899
Notopelta
n. gen.
Statommatia
n. gen.
Tenagopelta
n. gen.
Fossil genera included
(see
Tavares 1992
;
Blow & Bailey 1992
;
De Grave
et al.
2009
: 32;
Collins
et al.
2009
;
Schweitzer
et al.
2010
;
Guinot
et al
. 2013
;
Gašparič & Hyžný 2015
;
Jagt
et al.
2015
;
Gašparič & Halásová 2015
):
Collinsius
Karasawa, 1993
Falconoplax
Van Straelen, 1933
Gillcarcinus
Collins & Morris, 1978
Mioplax
Bittner, 1884
Orthakrolophos
Schweitzer & Feldmann, 2001
Styrioplax
Glaessner, 1928
A fossil species from the Miocene of
Virginia
,
U.S.A.
, was attributed to
Chasmocarcinus
by
Blow & Bailey (1992)
.