Subfamily Raninoidinae Lörenthey & Beurlen, 1929

Raninoides personatus [from Henderson 1888: pl. 2 fig. 5]

Museums

Regional Maps

• Raninoidinae Lörenthey, E. & Beurlen, K. 1929. Die fossilen Decapoden des Länder der ungarischen Krone. Geologica Hungarica Series Palaeontologica 3: 1-420 [299].

  Type genus:

   Raninoides H. Milne Edwards, 1837.
• Raninellidae Beurlen, 1930.

Diagnosis

Carapace with margins nearly parallel; frontal region wide; rostrum pointed or trifid (fossil forms); supra-orbital border developed, with teeth and notches. Antennae with very well-developed basal article, bearing prominent scale. Merus of third maxilliped markedly shorter than ischium. Thoracic sternum with sternites 1–6 in same plane; sternite 4 very large; sternite 6 separated from sternite 5 by transverse line, longitudinally grooved, anteriorly wide and posteriorly linear. Spermathecal apertures close together. (After Guinot 1993).

General References

Guinot, D. 1993. Données nouvelles sur les Raninoidea de Haan, 1841 (Crustacea Decapoda Brachyura Podotremata). Comptes Rendus (Hebdomadaires) des Séances de l'Academie des Sciences. Série D. Sciences Naturelles 316: 1324-1331

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