Notopus

Notopus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Clade:	Euarthropoda
Subphylum:	Crustacea
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Infraorder:	Brachyura
Family:	Raninidae
Genus:	Notopus; de Haan, 1841[1]
Type species
	Cancer dorsipes; Linnaeus, 1758
Species[1]
	See text.

Notopus is a genus of frog crabs from the family Raninidae,^[1] it consists of a single extant species and two extinct species.^[2]

Species

The three species classified under Notopus are set out below together with the geological frame for the two extinct species which are marked with †:^[2]

Notopus beyrichi† Bittner, 1875 - middle Eocene-lower Oligocene
Notopus dorsipes (Linnaeus, 1758)
Notopus muelleri† (van Binkhorst, 1857) - upper Maastrichtian

References

1 2 3 P. Davie; M. Türkay (2016). "Notopus De Haan, 1841". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 12 March 2017.
1 2 Hiroaki Karasawa; Carrie E. Schweitzer; Rodney M. Feldmann; Javier Luque (2014). "Phylogeny and Classification of Raninoida (Decapoda: Brachyura)". Journal of Crustacean Biology. 00: 1–57. doi:10.1163/1937240X-0000221.

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[WoRMS_106959-1] 1 2 3 P. Davie; M. Türkay (2016). "Notopus De Haan, 1841". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 12 March 2017.

[Karasawa-2] 1 2 Hiroaki Karasawa; Carrie E. Schweitzer; Rodney M. Feldmann; Javier Luque (2014). "Phylogeny and Classification of Raninoida (Decapoda: Brachyura)". Journal of Crustacean Biology. 00: 1–57. doi:10.1163/1937240X-0000221.