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Libinia

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Description

Libinia is a genus of crabs in the family Epialtidae, containing twelve extant species:

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libinia, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	2226733	https://www.gbif.org/species/2226733
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	22511	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=22511

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Malacostraca : Decapoda : Epialtidae : Libinia

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Ecdysozoa
-	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
subphylum	Mandibulata
-	Pancrustacea
subphylum	Crustacea	Brünnich 1772
class	Malacostraca	Latreille 1802
superorder	Eucarida	Calman 1904
order	Decapoda	Latreille 1802
-	Meiura	Saint Laurent 1980
infraorder	Brachyura	Latreille 1802
-	Eubrachyura	de Saint Laurent 1980
-	Heterotremata	Guinot 1977
superfamily	Majoidea	Samouelle 1819
family	Epialtidae	MacLeay 1838
subfamily	Pisinae	Dana 1851
genus	Libinia	Leach 1815

Scientific Name

Libinia Leach, 1815

Name Published In

Zool. Miscell., 2

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Libinia	genus	belongs to Majidae	stated without evidence	Rathbun, 1926
Libinia	genus	belongs to Decapoda	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Libinia	genus	belongs to Pisinae	stated without evidence	Schweitzer et al., 2010

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

4 (67%)

First Recorded Appearance

23.0 - 5.3 Ma
Miocene

Motility

actively mobile (based on Malacostraca)

Vision

well-developed (based on Malacostraca)

Diet

carnivore (based on Decapoda)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Malacostraca)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. J. Sepkoski, Jr. 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363:1-560

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libinia

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Libinia cavirostris species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Libinia dubia species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	11.6 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Libinia emarginata species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	23.0 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Libinia erinacea species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Libinia ferreirae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Libinia marylandicus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Libinia mbalavuensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	5.33 Ma Miocene	5.33 Ma Miocene
Libinia mexicana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Libinia peruana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Libinia peruviensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Libinia rhomboidea species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Libinia setosa species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	2.59 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Libinia spinosa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1815	Libinia Leach
1926	Libinia Rathbun p. 26
2002	Libinia Sepkoski, Jr.
2010	Libinia Schweitzer et al.
2017	Libinia Luque et al. p. 23

References

Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560

Rathbun M. J. (1926) The Fossil Stalk-Eyed Crustacea of the Pacific Slope of North America, United States National Museum Bulletin 138, 1-155

Schweitzer C. E., Feldmann R. M., et al (2010) Systematic list of fossil decapod crustacean species, Crustaceana Monographs 10, 1-222

Luque J., Schweitzer C. E., et al (2017) Checklist of fossil decapod crustaceans from tropical America. Part I: Anomura and Brachyura, Nauplius 25, e2017025 doi:10.1590/2358-2936e2017025

Türkay, M. (2001). Decapoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 284-292 - via World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS)

CoL2006 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

De Grave, S., Pentcheff, N.D., Ahyong, S.T., Chan, T.-Y., Crandall, K.A., Dworschak, P.C., Felder, D.L., Feldmann, R.M., Fransen, C.H.J.M., Goulding, L.Y.D., Lemaitre, R., Low, M.E.Y., Martin, J.W., Ng, P.K.L., Schweitzer, C.E., Tan, S.H., Tshudy, D. & Wetzer, R. (2009). A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. supplement 21: 1-109. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

WoRMS (Mar 2013) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

WoRMS (Nov 2016). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

CoL2006/ITIS - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Zool. Miscell., 2 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Williams, Austin B., 1984: null. Shrimps, Lobsters, and Crabs of the Atlantic Coast of the Eastern United States, Maine to Florida. xviii + 550. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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