Speocarcinus

Speocarcinus is a genus of crabs in the family Xanthidae, containing six extant species,[1] one fossil species[2] from the Late Miocene,[3] one fossil species from the Eocene (Lutetian)[4] and one fossil species from the Early Eocene (Ypresian):[5]

• Speocarcinus carolinensis Stimpson, 1859
• Speocarcinus granulimanus Rathbun, 1894
• Speocarcinus lobatus Guinot, 1969
• Speocarcinus meloi D'Incao & Gomes da Silva, 1992
• Speocarcinus monotuberculatus Falder & Rabalais, 1986
• Speocarcinus spinicarpus Guinot, 1969
• † Speocarcinus berglundi Tucker et al., 1994
• † Speocarcinus tuberculatus (Beschin, De Angeli, Checchi & Zarantonello, 2005); originally described as a species of Paraxanthosia, transferred to the genus Speocarcinus by Beschin et al. (2012)[4]
• † Speocarcinus latus Beschin et al., 2016

Speocarcinus Temporal range: Ypresian–Recent PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Crustacea
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Infraorder:	Brachyura
Family:	Xanthidae
Subfamily:	Speocarcininae Števčić, 2005
Genus:	Speocarcinus Stimpson, 1859

References

1. Peter K. L. Ng, Danièle Guinot & Peter J. F. Davie (2008). "Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 17: 1–286.
2. Sammy De Grave; N. Dean Pentcheff; Shane T. Ahyong; et al. (2009). "A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. Suppl. 21: 1–109.
3. Annette B. Tucker, Rodney M. Feldmann and Charles L. Powell, II (1994). "Speocarcinus berglundi n. sp. (Decapoda: Brachyura), a new crab from the Imperial Formation (Late Miocene–Late Pliocene) of Southern California". Journal of Paleontology. 68 (4): 800–807. JSTOR 1306148.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
4. Claudio Beschin; Antonio De Angeli; Andrea Checchi; Giannino Zarantonello (2012). Crostacei del giacimento eocenico di Grola presso Spagnago di Cornedo Vicentino (Vicenza, Italia Settentrionale) (Decapoda, Stomapoda, Isopoda) (PDF). Museo di Archeologia e Scienze Naturali “G. Zannato”, Montecchio Maggiore, Vicenza. pp. 1–100. ISBN 978-88-900625-2-0.
5. Claudio Beschin; Alessandra Busulini; Giuliano Tessier; Roberto Zorzin (2016). "I crostacei associati a coralli nell'Eocene inferiore dell'area di Bolca (Verona e Vicenza, Italia nordorientale)" (PDF). Memorie del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona - 2. serie. Sezione Scienze della Terra. 9: 1–189. ISBN 978-88-89230-29-9.