A revision of the Palaeocorystoidea and the phylogeny of raninoidian crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Podotremata) 3215
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Van Bakel, Barry W. M.
Author
Guinot, Danièle
Author
Artal, Pedro
Author
Fraaije, René H. B.
Author
Jagt, John W. M.
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Zootaxa
2012
2012-02-29
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https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.3215.1.1
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3215.1.1
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Genus
Orithopsis
Carter, 1872
Orithopsis
Carter, 1872: 530
.
Type
species.
Necrocarcinus tricarinatus
Bell, 1863
, by monotypy (=
Orithopsis bonneyi
Carter, 1872
).
Species included.
Orithopsis angelica
(
Fraaije, 2002
)
(
Fig. 22G
),
O. carinata
(
Feldmann, Tshudy & Thomson, 1993
)
,
O.
?
iserica
(Fritsch
in
Fritsch & Kafka, 1887
),
O.
?
youngi
(
Bishop, 1983c
),
O. siouxensis
(
Feldmann, Awotua & Welshenbaugh, 1976
)
,
O.
?
transiens
(Fritsch
in
Fritsch & Kafka, 1887
), and
O. tricarinata
(
Bell, 1863
)
.
Remarks.
Schweitzer
et al
. (2010: 82) listed only
O. bonneyi
and
O. tricarinatus
[
sic
] for
Orithopsis
. The synonymy of these two taxa had previously been, however, discussed at length by
Wright & Collins (1972)
, Collins (2003) and
Guinot
et al
. (2008)
; our examination of the
types
of both taxa substantiates that view.
Larghi (2004: 530)
stated that
Orithopsis
was one of the genera most similar to
Corazzatocarcinus
and separated them by the ‘marked hexagonal outline and distinct epibranchial lobes’ of
Orithopsis
. Reduction of both P4 and P
5 in
Corazzatocarcinus
sets it apart from
Orithopsis
and excludes it from
Orithopsidae
.