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Retroplumidae

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Retroplumidae is a family of heterotrematan crabs, placed in their own (monotypic) superfamily, Retroplumoidea.

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

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	3254049	https://www.gbif.org/species/3254049
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	63308	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=63308

Rank

family

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Malacostraca : Decapoda : Retroplumidae

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	Retroplumoidea	Gill 1894
family	Retroplumidae	Gill 1894

Scientific Name

Retroplumidae

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Retroplumidae	family	belongs to Ocypodoidea	stated without evidence	Collins and Morris, 1975
Retroplumidae	family	belongs to Thoracotremata	stated without evidence	Vega and Feldmann, 1995
Retroplumidae	family	belongs to Heterotremata	stated without evidence	Martin and Davis, 2001
Retroplumidae	family	belongs to Retroplumoidea	stated without evidence	Schweitzer and Feldmann, 2002

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

4 (13%)

First Recorded Appearance

101 - 86 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

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. W. Martin and G. E. Davis. 2001. An Updated Classification of the Recent Crustacea. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Science Series (39):1-124

Common Name(s)

ユウレイガニ

Wikipedia

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

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Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Bathypluma genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)			0 Ma Extant
Costacopluma ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	15	101 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	47.8 Ma Eocene
Cristipluma ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Loerentheya ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Loerenthopluma ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	28.1 Ma Oligocene	28.1 Ma Oligocene
Loerenthoplumopsa genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)			0 Ma Extant
Retrocypoda ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	47.8 Ma Eocene	38.0 Ma Eocene
Retropluma genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	8	11.6 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Ptenoplacidae	GBIF	family	Animalia : Arthropoda : Malacostraca : Decapoda : Ptenoplacidae

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1894	Retroplumidae Gill pp. 1043-1045
1900	Ptenoplacidae Alcock
1975	Retroplumidae Collins and Morris p. 823
1995	Retroplumidae Vega and Feldmann
2001	Retroplumidae Martin and Davis
2002	Retroplumidae Schweitzer and Feldmann p. 961

Year	Name and Author
2003	Retroplumidae Collins et al. p. 209
2009	Retroplumidae Nyborg et al. p. 205
2010	Retroplumidae Hyzny and Muller p. 125
2010	Retroplumidae Schweitzer et al.
2010	Retroplumidae van Bakel et al. p. 43
2017	Retroplumidae Luque et al. p. 13

References

Martin J. W., Davis G. E. (2001) An Updated Classification of the Recent Crustacea, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Science Series 39, 1-124

Collins J. S. H., Morris S. F. (1975) A new crab, Costacopluma concava from the Upper Cretaceous of Nigeria, Palaeontology 18 4, 823-829

Vega F. J., Feldmann R. M. (1995) Fossil Crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda) from the Late Cretaceous Cardenas Formation, East-Central Mexico, Journal of Paleontology 69 2, 340-350

Schweitzer C. E., Feldmann R. M. (2002) New Eocene decapods (Thalassinidea and Brachyura) from Southern California, Journal of Crustacean Biology 22, 938-967

Collins J. S. H., Lee C., et al (2003) Miocene and Pleistocene Crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda) from Sabah and Sarawak, Journal of Systematic Palaentology 1, 187-226

Nyborg T., Vega F. J., et al (2009) First described species of Costacopluma (Crustacea: Brachyura: Retroplumidae) from the Pacific slope, Paleocene of California, USA, Boletin de la Sociedad Geologica Mexicana 61 2, 203-209

Hyzny M., Muller P. M. (2010) Loerenthopluma Beschin, Busulini, De Angeli & Tessier, 1996 (Decapoda, Brachyura, Retroplumidae) from the Oligocene of Hungary, Attic Soc. it. Sci. nat. Museo civ. Stor. nat. Milano 151 2, 123-134

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

van Bakel B. W. M., Artal P., et al (2010) Loerenthopluma danielae, A New Crab (Decapoda, Brachyura, Retroplumidae) From the Lower Eocene of Northwest Belgium, Studies on Brachyura, 41-49

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

Martin, Joel W., and George E. Davis, 2001: An Updated Classification of the Recent Crustacea. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles, Science Series 39. 124. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Bowman, Thomas E., and Lawrence G. Abele / Lawrence G. Abele, ed. / Dorothy E. Bliss, ed.-in-chief, 1982: Chapter 1: Classification of the Recent Crustacea. The Biology of Crustacea, vol. 1: Systematics, the Fossil Record, and Biogeography. 1-27. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

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

Parker, S.P. (ed). (1982). Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms. McGraw-Hill, New York. 2 volumes. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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

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