Acanthochirana

<i>Acanthochirana</i>

Acanthochirana

Extinct genus of crustaceans

Acanthochirana is an extinct genus of prawn that existed during the upper Jurassic period.[3] It was named by E. Strand in 1928, and its type species is Acanthochirana cordata.[2][4] They are distinguished from the related genus Aeger by the presence of teeth on the rostrum, which are absent in Aeger.[5]

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Species

As of 2014, Acanthochirana includes six to seven species:[6][lower-alpha 1]

Notes

  1. A. cenomanica is considered a subjective junior synonym of A. smithwoodwardi.[6][7]
  2. Type species; syn. A longipes[2][6]

References

  1. [1]
    Strand, E. (1928). "Miscellanea nomenclatoria zoologica et palaeontologica" [Miscellaneous geological and palaeontological nomenclature]. Archiv für Naturgeschichte. I–II (in Italian). 92A (8): 40–41.
  2. [2]
    De Grave, Sammy; Pentcheff, N. Dean; Ahyong, Shane T.; et al. (2009). "A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. Suppl. 21: 1–109. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-06 – via the National University of Singapore.
  3. [3]
    W. Dall (1990). The Biology of the Penaeidae. Advances in marine biology. Volume 27. Academic Press. ISBN 978-0-12-026127-7.
  4. [4]
    Creepy Crawlies: Ladybugs, Lobsters & Other Amazing Arthropods. Sterling Publishing Company. 1991. p. 106. ISBN 978-0-8069-8336-3.
  5. [5]
    Etter, Walter (2004). "Decapod crustaceans from the Middle Jurassic Opalinus Clay of northern Switzerland, with comments on crustacean taphonomy" (PDF). Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae. 97 (3): 381–392. doi:10.1007/s00015-004-1137-2.
  6. [6]
    Garassino, Alessandro; Schweigert, Günter; Muscio, Giuseppe (2013). "Acanthochirana triassica N. Sp. and Antrimpos Colettoi N. Sp. (Decapoda: Aegeridae, Penaeidae) From the Upper Triassic (Norian) of Northern Carnic Pre-Alps (Udine, Northeastern Italy)" (PDF). Gortania (Geologia, Paleontologia, Paletnologia). 35: 11–18. ISSN 2038-0410 – via the Civic Museum of Udine.
  7. [7]
    Bravi, Sergio; Garassino, Alessandro; Bartiromo, Antonello; et al. (2014). "Middle Jurassic Monte Fallano Plattenkalk (Campania, southern Italy): first report on terrestrial plants, decapod crustaceans and fishes" (PDF). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie. 272 (1): 79–107. doi:10.1127/0077-7749/2014/0398. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2021-11-16 – via ResearchGate.


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