Subfamily Ranininae De Haan, 1839

Ranina ranina [P. Davie 2002: 490]

Museums

Regional Maps

• Raninoidea De Haan, W. 1839. Crustacea. 1-243 pls A-J, L-Q, 1-55, circ. tab. 2 in von Siebold, P.F. (ed.). Fauna Japonica sive Descriptio Animalium, quae in Itinere per Japoniam, Jussu et Auspiciis Superiorum, qui Summum in India Batava Imperium Tenent, Suscepto, Annis 1823–1830 Collegit, Notis, Observationibus et Adumbrationibus Illustravit. Leiden : Lugundi-Batavorum. [published from 1833–1850] [102] [emended to Raninidae by White, A. 1847. List of the Specimens of Crustacea in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum viii 143 pp. (56)].

  Type genus:

   Ranina Lamarck, 1801.

  Secondary source:

   White, A. 1847. List of the Specimens of Crustacea in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum viii 143 pp. [Date published Apr/1847].
• Raninoidea De Haan, 1839.
• Gymnopleura Bourne, 1922.

Diagnosis

Carapace wide, broadened anteriorly; dorsal surface scabrous or terraced; orbits directed anteriorly; front wide; rostrum pointed, or trifid (fossil forms). Thoracic sternum strongly deflexed at level of sternite 7, sternite 8 perpendicular to preceding sternite; sternite 4 wide; sternite 5 only lateral; sternite 6 linear, especially between coxae of third pereiopod. Chelipeds with short flattened propodus; dactylus short, bent against anterior border of palm; fixed finger very short. Spermathecal apertures close together, longitudinal in outline. (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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