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 text 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 Dorippe sinica Chen, 1980 Dorippe ( Dorippe ) sinica Chen, 1980: 154 , fig. 1, pl. 1. Dorippe sinica – Karasawa et al. 2021: 139, 146, pl. 2, fig. 20. — Ando et al. 2022: 132, pl. 2, fig. A. REMARKS Two carapace fragments allocated to the Recent species Dorippe sinica are shown in the Illustrated catalogue of Decapoda from the Middle Pleistocene Atsumi Group, Japan by Karasawa et al. (2021). The strongly tuberculated carapace, although it appears longer and too narrow anteriorly, is reminiscent of the extant Dorippe sinica ( Fig. 10C, D ), very common in Japan . Dorippe sinica was recently found in Holocene deposits in the Shimizu Port, Shizuoka City, Japan (Ando et al. 2022: 132, pl. 2, fig. A). The species belongs to the Dorippinae n. stat ..