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Raninidae

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Description

Raninidae is a family of unusual crabs, sometimes known as "frog crabs", on account of their frog-like appearance. They are taken by most scientists to be quite primitive among the true crabs. They closely resemble the (unrelated) mole crabs, due to parallel evolution or convergent evolution. In both groups, the claws are modified into tools for digging, and the body is a rounded shape that is easy to bury in sand. Unlike most other true crabs, the abdomens of raninids are not curled under the cephalothorax.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raninidae, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	8677	https://www.gbif.org/species/8677
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	63296	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=63296

Rank

family

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Malacostraca : Decapoda : Raninidae

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Ecdysozoa
-	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
subphylum	Mandibulata
-	Pancrustacea
subphylum	Crustacea	Brünnich 1772
class	Malacostraca	Latreille 1802
superorder	Eucarida	Calman 1904
order	Decapoda	Latreille 1802
-	Meiura	Saint Laurent 1980
infraorder	Brachyura	Latreille 1802
-	Eubrachyura	de Saint Laurent 1980
-	Raninoida	de Haan 1839
superfamily	Raninoidea	de Haan 1839
family	Raninidae	de Haan 1833

Scientific Name

Raninidae

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Raninidae	family	belongs to Brachyura	stated without evidence	de Haan, 1833
Raninidae	family	belongs to Gymnopleura	stated without evidence	Rathbun, 1926
Raninidae	family	belongs to Raninoidea	stated without evidence	Feldmann, 1989
Raninidae	family	belongs to Podotremata	stated without evidence	Schweitzer et al., 2000
Raninidae	family	belongs to Raninoidea	stated without evidence	Karasawa and Fudouji, 2000

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

3 (19%)

First Recorded Appearance

70.6 - 66.0 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Motility

actively mobile (based on Malacostraca)

Vision

well-developed (based on Malacostraca)

Diet

carnivore (based on Decapoda)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Malacostraca)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

W. de Haan. 1833. Crustacea, p. 1-243, pls. A-J, L-Q, 1-55 IN Fauna Japonica.

Common Name(s)

Frog Crabs, Froschkrabben, アサヒガニ

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raninidae

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Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Cyrtorhininae subfamily	listed (PBDB)		3	41.3 Ma Eocene	0 Ma Extant
Symethinae ✝ subfamily	listed (PBDB)		5	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	16.0 Ma Miocene
Carinatus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		5	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	16.0 Ma Miocene
Claudioranina ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Cosmonotus genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	2.59 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Cyrtorhina genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	41.3 Ma Eocene	0 Ma Extant
Erroranilia ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	2.59 Ma Pleistocene	2.59 Ma Pleistocene
Italianira genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Lophoraninella ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Lyreidus genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		42	56.0 Ma Paleocene	0 Ma Extant
Lysirude genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Notopoides genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Notopus genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		5	48.6 Ma Eocene	0 Ma Extant
Notosceles genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		8	101 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Pseudorogueus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	145 Ma Late Jurassic	145 Ma Late Jurassic
Ranilia genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	37.2 Ma Eocene	0 Ma Extant
Ranina genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		24	56.0 Ma Paleocene	0 Ma Extant
Raninoides genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		54	83.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Symethis genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Umalia genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	2.59 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Vegaranina ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Palaenotopus barroisi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Notopterygia	GBIF	family	Animalia : Arthropoda : Malacostraca : Decapoda : Notopterygia
Symethidae	GBIF	family	Animalia : Arthropoda : Malacostraca : Decapoda : Symethidae
Raninellidae	GBIF	family	Animalia : Arthropoda : Malacostraca : Decapoda : Raninellidae

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1833	Raninidae de Haan
1926	Raninidae Rathbun p. 88
1989	Raninidae Feldmann p. 63
1992	Raninidae Feldmann p. 943
1992	Raninidae Feldmann and Keys p. 10
1992	Raninidae Karasawa p. 1252
1993	Raninidae Feldmann p. 204
1993	Raninidae Karasawa p. 42
2000	Raninidae Karasawa and Fudouji p. 244
2000	Raninidae Schweitzer et al. p. 68
2001	Raninidae Vega et al. p. 931
2002	Raninidae Schweitzer and Feldmann p. 961

Year	Name and Author
2003	Raninidae Collins et al. p. 198
2003	Raninidae Feldmann et al. p. 152
2004	Raninidae Beschin and Busulini p. 110
2005	Raninidae Todd and Collins p. 68
2006	Raninidae Schweitzer et al. p. 24 figs. Table 1
2007	Raninidae Schweitzer et al. p. 3
2010	Raninidae Schweitzer et al.
2012	Raninidae van Bakel et al. p. 70
2017	Raninidae Luque et al. p. 8
2017	Raninidae Pasini and Garassino p. 88
2019	Raninidae Feldmann et al.

References

de Haan W. Crustacea, p. 1-243, pls. A-J, L-Q, 1-55 IN Fauna Japonica

Rathbun M. J. (1926) The Fossil Stalk-Eyed Crustacea of the Pacific Slope of North America, United States National Museum Bulletin 138, 1-155

Feldmann R. M. (1989) Lyreidus alseanus Rathbun from the Paleogene of Washington and Oregon, U.S.A., Annals of the Carnegie Museum 58 2, 61-70

Feldmann R. M. (1992) The Genus Lyreidus de Haan, 1839 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Raninidae): Systematics and Biogeography, Journal of Paleontology 66 6, 943-957

Feldmann R. M., Keys I. W. (1992) Systematic and stratigraphic review with catalogue and locality index of the Mesozoic and Cenozoic decapod Crustacea of New Zealand, New Zealand Geological Survey Record 45, 1-73

Karasawa H. (1992) Fossil decapod crustaceans from the Manda Group (Middle Eocene), Kyushu, Japan, Transactions and Proceedings of the Paleontological Society of Japan, N.S. 167, 1247-1258

Feldmann R. M. (1993) Additions to the fossil decapod crustacean fauna of New Zealand, New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 36 2, 201-211 doi:10.1080/00288306.1993.9514568

Karasawa H. (1993) Cenozoic Decapod Crustacea from Southwest Japan, Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum 20, 1-92

Karasawa H., Fudouji Y. (2000) Palaeogene decapod Crustacea from the Kishima and Okinoshima Groups, Jyushu, Japan, Paleontological Research 4 4, 239-253

Schweitzer C. E., Feldmann R. M., et al (2000) Eocene decapod crustaceans from Pulali Point, Washington, Annals of the Carnegie Museum 69 1, 23-67

Vega F. J., Cosma T, et al (2001) New middle Eocene decapods (Crustacea) from Chiapas, Mexico, Journal of Paleontology 75, 929-946

Schweitzer C. E., Feldmann R. M. (2002) New Eocene decapods (Thalassinidea and Brachyura) from Southern California, Journal of Crustacean Biology 22, 938-967

Collins J. S. H., Lee C., et al (2003) Miocene and Pleistocene Crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda) from Sabah and Sarawak, Journal of Systematic Palaentology 1, 187-226

Feldmann R. M., Schweitzer C. E., et al (2003) Decapod crustaceans from the Eocene La Meseta Formation, Seymour Island, Antarctica: a model for preservation of decapods, Journal of the Geological Society, London 160, 151-160

Beschin C., Busulini A. (2004) The Eocene decapod crustacean fauna of the "main" quarry in Arzigano (Vicenz - NE Italy) with the description of a new species of Raninidae, Lavori Soc. Ven. Sc. Naturali 29, 109-117

Todd J. A., Collins J. S. H. (2005) Neogene and Quaternary crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda) collected from Costa Rica and Panama by members of the Panama Paleontology Project, Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum 32, 53-85

Schweitzer C. E., Feldmann R. M., et al (2006) New Decapoda (Anomura, Brachyura) from the Eocene Bateque and Tepetate Formations, Baja California Sur, Mexico, Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum 33, 21-45

Schweitzer C. E., Feldmann R. M., et al (2007) Decapod crustaceans (Brachyura) from the Eocene Tepetate Formation, Baja California Sur, Mexico, Annals of Carnegie Museum 76 1, 1-14

Schweitzer C. E., Feldmann R. M., et al (2010) Systematic list of fossil decapod crustacean species, Crustaceana Monographs 10, 1-222

van Bakel B. W. M., Guinot D., et al (2012) A revision of the Palaeocorystoidea and the phylogeny of raninoidian crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Podotremata), Zootaxa 3215, 1-216

Luque J., Schweitzer C. E., et al (2017) Checklist of fossil decapod crustaceans from tropical America. Part I: Anomura and Brachyura, Nauplius 25, e2017025 doi:10.1590/2358-2936e2017025

Pasini G., Garassino A. (2017) A new raninoid crab (Decapoda, Brachyura, Raninidae) from the early Oligocene (late Rupelian) of Italy, Natural History Sciences. Atti Soc. it. Sci. nat. Museo civ. Stor. nat. Milano 4 1, 87-96 doi:10.4081/nhs.2017.323

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