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Megalobrachium

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	2222743	https://www.gbif.org/species/2222743
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	272108	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=272108

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Malacostraca : Decapoda : Porcellanidae : Megalobrachium

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Malacostraca : Decapoda : Porcellanidea : Megalobrachium

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
-	Thoracotremata	Guinot 1977
superfamily	Ocypodoidea	Rafinesque 1815
family	Porcellanidea	Stimpson 1862
genus	Megalobrachium	Stimpson 1858

Scientific Name

Megalobrachium Stimpson, 1858

Name Published In

Stimpson, W. (1858). Prodromus descriptionis animalium evertebratum, quae in Expeditione ad Oceanum Pacificum Septentrionalem, a Republica Federata missa, Cadwaladaro Ringgold et Johanne Rodgers Ducibus, observavit et descripsit. Pars VII. Crustacea Anomoura. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Phiadelphia. 10: 225-252.

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Megalobrachium	genus	belongs to Porcellanidea	stated with evidence	Stimpson, 1862

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

2 (100%)

First Recorded Appearance

0.01 Ma
Pleistocene

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)

W. Stimpson. 1862. Notes on North American Crustacea. Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York 7(1):49-93

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Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Megalobrachium erosum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Megalobrachium festae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Megalobrachium festai species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Megalobrachium garthi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Megalobrachium granuliferum species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	0.01 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Megalobrachium lemaitrei species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Megalobrachium mortenseni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Megalobrachium pacificum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Megalobrachium peruvianum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Megalobrachium poeyi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Megalobrachium roseum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Megalobrachium sinuimanus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Megalobrachium smithi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Megalobrachium soriatum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Megalobrachium tuberculipes species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Porcellanides Nobili, 1901	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Arthropoda : Malacostraca : Decapoda : Porcellanidae : *Porcellanides*
Porcellanopsis Rathbun, 1910	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Arthropoda : Malacostraca : Decapoda : Porcellanidae : *Porcellanopsis*
Magalobrachium Stimpson, 1858	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Arthropoda : Malacostraca : Decapoda : Porcellanidae : *Magalobrachium*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1862	Megalobrachium Stimpson

References

Stimpson W. Notes on North American Crustacea, Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York 7 1, 49-93

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

SN2000 unverified - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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

Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., 1858 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Williams, Austin B., Lawrence G. Abele, D. L. Felder, H. H. Hobbs, Jr., R. B. Manning, et al., 1989: Common and Scientific Names of Aquatic Invertebrates from the United States and Canada: Decapod Crustaceans. American Fisheries Society Special Publication 17. 77. - 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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