Eosymethis, Van Bakel & Guinot & Artal & Fraaije & Jagt, 2012

Van Bakel, Barry W. M., Guinot, Danièle, Artal, Pedro, Fraaije, René H. B. & Jagt, John W. M., 2012, A revision of the Palaeocorystoidea and the phylogeny of raninoidian crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Podotremata) 3215, Zootaxa 3215 (1), pp. 1-216 : 104

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3215.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:B20CD4A6-D150-4CCF-931F-ED6D7EA54E8C

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5250472

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Eosymethis
status

gen. nov.

Genus Eosymethis View in CoL n. gen.

Type species. Eosymethis aragonensis View in CoL n. sp.

Diagnosis. Small-sized carapace, elongatedly suboval, weakly convex in both directions. Orbitofrontal margin extremely narrow, well projected, orbits small, front strongly advanced. Anterolateral margins with a notable angular node at level of hepatic region. Dorsal regions weakly defined; post-frontal depression present; arched branchiocardiac grooves, oblique branchial scars. Dorsal surface densely covered by large pits. Pereiopods with short, flattened articles, dactyli falciform.

Derivation of name. Indicating an ancestral form of Symethis .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Decapoda

Family

Raninidae

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