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 Nobilum wenchii Hu & Tao, 1996 Nobilum wenchii Hu & Tao, 1996: 65 , pl. 11, fig. 9. — Karasawa 2000: table 1. — Müller 2006: 42. — Schweitzer et al. 2010: 80. — Guinot et al. 2013: 187. — Sasaki 2019: 7797. — Van Bakel et al. 2020: fig. 10.26. REMARKS The carapace of Nobilum wenchii , from the Miocene of Taiwan , is longer and narrower than that of the extant N. histrio ( Figs 3F ; 21A ) and this shape more resembles a Neodorippe , except that in the latter the carapace is smooth ( Figs 3E ; 20A, B ). In addition, the posterior border of the carapace is described as “similar to a lip, protruded medially and inwardly”, which is not the case in Neodorippe where the rim is faint and the strip very narrow. It is however possible that the species belongs to the Heikeopsinae n. subfam.