Microcassiope Guinot 1967

Genus Microcassiope Guinot, 1967 Type species. Xanthodes rufopunctatus A. Milne-Edwards, 1869 [Type locality: Cape Saint-Vincent and Maio; junior synonym of Xantho minor Dana, 1852a]. Remarks. Microcassiope currently encompass four species, namely: M. minor (Dana, 1852) [Xantho] (AA), M. orientalis...

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Main Author: In, First Published
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:unknown
Published: 2022
Subjects:
Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Xanthidae
Microcassiope
Saint-Vincent
South Atlantic Ocean
Online Access:https://zenodo.org/record/7626379
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7626379
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Summary:Genus Microcassiope Guinot, 1967 Type species. Xanthodes rufopunctatus A. Milne-Edwards, 1869 [Type locality: Cape Saint-Vincent and Maio; junior synonym of Xantho minor Dana, 1852a]. Remarks. Microcassiope currently encompass four species, namely: M. minor (Dana, 1852) [Xantho] (AA), M. orientalis Takeda & Miyake, 1969 (IWP), M. taboguillensis (Rathbun, 1907) [Micropanope] (EP) and M. xanthusii (Stimpson, 1871b) [Xanthodes] (EP). We follow Manning & Holthuis (1981) in considering M. granulimana (Stimpson, 1871a) [Pilumnus] conspecific with M. minor (see below under M. minor). Published as part of In, First Published, 2022, Brachyuran crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda) from the remote oceanic Archipelago Trindade and Martin Vaz, South Atlantic Ocean, pp. 1-129 in Zootaxa 5146 on page 69, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.5146.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7626155

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