''Tumidocarcinus'' is an extinct genus of crabs in the family
Tumidocarcinidae, containing the following species:
* ''
Tumidocarcinus dentatus
''Tumidocarcinus'' is an extinct genus of crabs in the family Tumidocarcinidae, containing the following species:
* ''Tumidocarcinus dentatus''
* ''Tumidocarcinus foersteri''
* ''Tumidocarcinus giganteus''
* ''Tumidocarcinus tumidus''
* ''Tumido ...
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* ''
Tumidocarcinus foersteri''
* ''
Tumidocarcinus giganteus''
* ''
Tumidocarcinus tumidus''
* ''
Tumidocarcinus victoriensis''
It is a host of the parasitic ''
Kentrogonida
Kentrogonida was formerly a suborder of barnacles belonging to the group Rhizocephala, now an infraclass
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'' barnacles.
Fossil record
This genus is known in the fossil record from the
Eocene to the
Miocene epoch.
Most other species of Tumidocarcinus are known from
New Zealand and
Australia
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, however,
T. foersteri is known from the
La Meseta Formation from
Seymour Island, Antarctica.
[Aguirre-Urreta, M., Marenssi, S., & Santillana, S. (1995). A new Eocene crab (Crustacea, Decapoda) from Seymour Island, Antarctica. ''Antarctic Science,'' ''7''(3), 277-281. doi:10.1017/S0954102095000381]
References
Prehistoric crustacean genera
Eocene
Miocene
Crabs
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