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Carcinidae

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Description

Portunidae is a family of crabs which contains the swimming crabs.

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

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	3254253	https://www.gbif.org/species/3254253
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	224462	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=224462

Rank

family

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Malacostraca : Decapoda : Carcinidae

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	Portunoidea	Rafinesque 1815
family	Carcinidae	MacLeay 1838

Scientific Name

Carcinidae

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Carcinidae	family	belongs to Portunoidea	stated without evidence	Schweitzer et al., 2010

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

15 (38%)

First Recorded Appearance

56.0 - 38.0 Ma
Eocene

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)

C. E. Schweitzer, R. M. Feldmann, and A. Garassino, H. Karasawa, and G. Schweigert. 2010. Systematic list of fossil decapod crustacean species. Crustaceana Monographs 10:1-222

Wikipedia

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

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Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Carcininae subfamily	listed (PBDB)	7	56.0 Ma Paleocene	0 Ma Extant
Polybiinae subfamily	listed (PBDB)	27	37.2 Ma Eocene	0 Ma Extant
Carcinus genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	6	56.0 Ma Paleocene	0 Ma Extant
Cicarnus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	41.3 Ma Eocene	41.3 Ma Eocene
Miopipus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	13.7 Ma Miocene	13.7 Ma Miocene
Portumnus genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)			0 Ma Extant
Xaiva ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	7.25 Ma Miocene	7.25 Ma Miocene

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1838	Carcinidae MacLeay
2010	Carcinidae Schweitzer et al.
2018	Carcinidae Feldmann et al. p. 579

References

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

Feldmann R. M., Schweitzer C. E., et al (2018) Complex taphonomic and depositional history of a new species of Carcinidae (Decapoda: Brachyura: Portunoidea) from Washington state, USA, Journal of Crustacean Biology 38 5, 579-585 doi:10.1093/jcbiol/ruy066

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

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

Ahyong et al., 2011 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per Portunidae - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Berggren M (2017) """Decapoda_2017.xlsx"", Swedish names for the decapods. Excel document sent to Johan Liljeblad on 2017-04-12." - via Dyntaxa. Svensk taxonomisk databas

MacLeay, W.S. (1838) On the brachyurous decapod Crustacea brought from the Cape by Dr. Smith, in Smith A., Illustrations of the Zoology of South Africa; Consisting Chiefly of Figures and Descriptions of the Objects of Natural History Collected During an Expedition into the Interior of South Africa, in the Years 1834, 1835, and 1836; Fitted out by ‘The Cape of Good Hope Association for Exploring Central Africa’: Together with a Summary of African Zoology, and an Inquiry into the Geographical Ranges of Species in that Quarter of the Globe. Invertebratae - via Dyntaxa. Svensk taxonomisk databas

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