Archaeocypoda veronensis Secretan, 1975

Guinot, Danièle, 2023, A new subfamily classification of the highly diversified Dorippidae H. Milne Edwards, 1837 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Dorippoidea), using morphological, molecular and palaeotonlogical data, with special emphasis on its unique female reproductive system, Zoosystema 45 (9), pp. 225-372 : 358

Archaeocypoda veronensis Secretan, 1975

Archaeocypoda veronensis Secretan, 1975: 363 , figs 21, 22, pl. 23, fig. 2, pls 24, 25.

REMARKS

The status of this species from the Early Eocene of Bolca Fossil-Lagerstätten, Italy (Secretan 1975: 363-369, figs 21, 22, pl. 23, fig. 2, pls 24, 25) (see De Angeli & Garassino 2006: 79), has been fully revised with numerous figures by Pasini et al. (2019b: 253, fig. 12). Casadío et al. (2005: 175) stated that it was not an ocypodid and suggested that it might be a member of the Dorippidae . Subsequently Schweitzer et al. (2010: 79) and Schweitzer et al. (2021: 1, fig. 1.2) included it in the Dorippidae , while Pasini et al. (2019b: 255) preferred to consider it as a ‘doubtful dorippid’. Figures of the holotype and paratypes (Giusberti et al. 2014: fig. 6d; Pasini et al. 2019b: fig. 12; Schweitzer et al. 2021: fig. 1.2) show crabs with an unreduced P4 and a poorly or not at all reduced P5, which excludes Archaeocypoda veronensis from being a dorippid. The hypothesis that at least part of this material could be an ethusid (only P5 reduced) is to be considered. See literature in Sasaki (2019: 7771).