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Callianassidae

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Callianassidae is a family of ghost shrimp of the order Decapoda.

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

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4477	https://www.gbif.org/species/4477
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	66316	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=66316

Rank

family

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Malacostraca : Decapoda : Callianassidae

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
infraorder	Thalassinidea	Latreille 1831
superfamily	Callianassoidea	Dana 1852
family	Callianassidae	Dana 1852

Scientific Name

Callianassidae

Name Published In

Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 6: 12, 14, 19

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Callianassidae	family	belongs to Thalassinidea	stated without evidence	Rathbun, 1918
Callianassidae	family	belongs to Callianassoidea	stated without evidence	Whetstone and Collins, 1982
Callianassidae	family	belongs to Axioidea	stated without evidence	Karasawa, 1992
Callianassidae	family	belongs to Thalassinoidea	stated without evidence	Feldmann and Keys, 1992
Callianassidae	family	belongs to Callianassoidea	stated with evidence	Karasawa, 2000
Callianassidae	family	belongs to Callianassoidea	stated without evidence	Karasawa and Fudouji, 2000
Callianassidae	family	belongs to Callianassoidea	stated with evidence	Feldmann et al., 2003
Callianassidae	family	belongs to Callianassoidea	stated without evidence	Schweitzer et al., 2004
Callianassidae	family	belongs to Axiidea	stated without evidence	Feldmann et al., 2019
Callianassidae	family	belongs to Callianassoidea	stated without evidence	Komai et al., 2019

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

298

Extant Size (PBDB)

51 (17%)

First Recorded Appearance

183 - 182 Ma
Early Jurassic

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)

H. Karasawa, T. Nohara, and K. Shimoji. 1995. Decapod Crustacea from the Ryukyu Group (Pleistocene) of Okinawa-jima, Japan. Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum 22:127-135

Common Name(s)

Spökkräftor, Ghost Shrimps, Geistergarnelen, Sandgarnelen, Burrowing Ghost Shrimps, Burrowing Prawns, Sandprawns, スナモグリ

Wikipedia

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

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Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Callianassinae subfamily	listed (PBDB)		243	183 Ma Early Jurassic	0 Ma Extant
Callichirinae subfamily	listed (PBDB)		1	0.13 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Cheraminae subfamily	listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Eucalliinae subfamily	listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Protocallianassinae ✝ subfamily	listed (PBDB)
Balsscallichirus genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Bathycalliax genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Biffarius genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	0.01 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Brecanclawu ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Callianassa genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		243	183 Ma Early Jurassic	0 Ma Extant
Calliapagurops genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Calliax genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		6	86.3 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Callichiropsis genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Callichirus genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Mud Shrimp	3	37.2 Ma Eocene	0 Ma Extant
Cheramus genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	145 Ma Late Jurassic	0 Ma Extant
Comoxianassa ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Corallianassa genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	0.01 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Corallichirus genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cowichianassa ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Ctenocheloides genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Eoglypturus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Eucalliax genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		8	47.8 Ma Eocene	0 Ma Extant
Gilvossius genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Glypturus genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	33.9 Ma Oligocene	0 Ma Extant
Grynaminna genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Laticallichirus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Lepidophthalmus genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	0.13 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Lipkecallianassa genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Melipal ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	48.6 Ma Eocene	48.6 Ma Eocene
Mesostylus ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		23	101 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Michaelcallianassa genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Necallianassa genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Neocallichirus genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		47	101 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Neotrypaea genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	2.59 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Nihonotrypaea genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Notiax genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Paraglypturus genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	0.01 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Paratrypaea genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pehuenchia ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Pestarella genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pleuronassa genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Podocallichirus genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	7.25 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Poti genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Protocallianassa ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		33	130 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	47.8 Ma Eocene
Psammionassa genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pseudobiffarius genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Rathbunassa genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Rayllianassa genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Scallasis genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Sergio genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Trypaea genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	0.01 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Turbiocheir genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Typaea genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Vecticallichirus genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Vegarthron ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	46.2 Ma Eocene	46.2 Ma Eocene
Vulcanocalliax genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

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

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1852	Callianassidae Dana
1918	Callianassidae Rathbun p. 136
1926	Callianassidae Rathbun p. 105
1935	Callianassidae Stenzel p. 389
1982	Callianassidae Whetstone and Collins p. 1221
1992	Callianassidae Feldmann and Keys p. 9
1992	Callianassidae Karasawa p. 1248
1999	Callianassidae Schweitzer and Feldmann p. 227
2000	Callianassidae Karasawa p. 236
2000	Callianassidae Karasawa and Fudouji p. 242

Year	Name and Author
2001	Callianassidae Vega et al. p. 931
2002	Callianassidae Schweitzer and Feldmann p. 961
2003	Callianassidae Feldmann et al. p. 152
2004	Callianassidae Schweitzer et al. p. 94
2005	Callianassidae Schweitzer et al. p. 278
2005	Callianassidae Todd and Collins p. 62
2006	Callianassidae Schweitzer et al. p. 24 figs. Table 1
2010	Callianassidae Schweitzer et al.
2019	Callianassidae Feldmann et al.
2019	Callianassidae Komai et al. p. 463

References

Karasawa H., Nohara T., et al (1995) Decapod Crustacea from the Ryukyu Group (Pleistocene) of Okinawa-jima, Japan, Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum 22, 127-135

Rathbun M. J. (1918) Decapod Crustaceans from the Panama Region, Smithsonian Institution United States National Museum, 123-184

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

Stenzel H. B. (1935) Middle Eocene and Oligocene Decapod Crustaceans from Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi, The American Midland Naturalist 16 3, 379-400

Whetstone K. N., Collins J. S. H. (1982) Fossil Crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda) from the Upper Cretaceous Eutaw Formation of Alabama, Journal of Paleontology 56 5, 1218-1222

Feldmann R. M., Keys I. W. (1992) Systematic and stratigraphic review with catalogue and locality index of the Mesozoic and Cenozoic decapod Crustacea of New Zealand, New Zealand Geological Survey Record 45, 1-73

Karasawa H. (1992) Fossil decapod crustaceans from the Manda Group (Middle Eocene), Kyushu, Japan, Transactions and Proceedings of the Paleontological Society of Japan, N.S. 167, 1247-1258

Schweitzer C. E., Feldmann R. M. (1999) Fossil decapod crustaceans from the late Oligocene to early Miocene Pysht Formation and late Oligocene Quimper Sandstone, Olympic Peninsula, Washington, Annals of Carnegie Museum 68 4, 215-273

Karasawa H. (2000) Discovery of Early Cretaceous (Barremian) decapod Crustacea from the Arida Formation of Wakayama Prefecture, Japan, Paleontological Research 4 4, 235-238

Karasawa H., Fudouji Y. (2000) Palaeogene decapod Crustacea from the Kishima and Okinoshima Groups, Jyushu, Japan, Paleontological Research 4 4, 239-253

Vega F. J., Cosma T, et al (2001) New middle Eocene decapods (Crustacea) from Chiapas, Mexico, Journal of Paleontology 75, 929-946

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

Feldmann R. M., Schweitzer C. E., et al (2003) Decapod crustaceans from the Eocene La Meseta Formation, Seymour Island, Antarctica: a model for preservation of decapods, Journal of the Geological Society, London 160, 151-160

Schweitzer C. E., Feldmann R. M., et al (2004) New Decapoda (Crustacea) from the middle and late Eocene of Pakistan and a revision of Lobonotus A. Milne Edwards, 1864, University of Michigan Contributions from the Musuem of Paleontology 31 4, 89-118

Schweitzer C. E., González-Barba G., et al (2005) Decapoda (Thalassinidea and Paguroidea) from the Eocene Bateque and Tepetate formations, Baja California Sur, Mexico: Systematics, cuticle microstructure, and paleoecology, Annals of Carnegie Museum 74 4, 275-293 doi:10.2992/0097-4463(2005)74[275:DTAPFT]2.0.CO;2

Todd J. A., Collins J. S. H. (2005) Neogene and Quaternary crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda) collected from Costa Rica and Panama by members of the Panama Paleontology Project, Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum 32, 53-85

Schweitzer C. E., Feldmann R. M., et al (2006) New Decapoda (Anomura, Brachyura) from the Eocene Bateque and Tepetate Formations, Baja California Sur, Mexico, Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum 33, 21-45

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 (2019) Paleogene Decapoda (Caridea, Anomura, Axiidea, Brachyura) from Alabama and Mississippi, USA, Journal of Crustacean Biology 39 3, 279-302 doi:10.1093/jcbiol/ruz002

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