A new raninid crab (Crustacea : Decapoda : Brachyura) from the Kase Formation (lower Miocene) of Kyushu, Japan

Authors
Karasawa, H
Citation
H. Karasawa, A new raninid crab (Crustacea : Decapoda : Brachyura) from the Kase Formation (lower Miocene) of Kyushu, Japan, P BIOL SOC, 113(3), 2000, pp. 806-809
Citations number
9
Categorie Soggetti
Biology
Journal title
PROCEEDINGS OF THE BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON
ISSN journal
0006324X → ACNP
Volume
113
Issue
3
Year of publication
2000
Pages
806 - 809
Database
ISI
SICI code
0006-324X(20001101)113:3<806:ANRC(:>2.0.ZU;2-Z
Abstract
Carinaranina fudoujii, new species, a crab of the family Raninidae is descr ibed from the lower Miocene Kase Formation in Nagasaki Prefecture, Kyushu, southwest Japan. Recognition of this species of Carinaranina from the Mioce ne of Japan expands the geographic and geologic ranges of the genus, previo usly known from the Eocene-Oligocene of the Pacific slope of the U.S.A.