A New Genus of Fossil Sand Crab (Anomura: Albuneidae) from the Oligocene of Italy |
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| Authors: | Christopher B. Boyko |
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| Affiliation: | Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, NY 10024, USA. e-mail |
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| Abstract: | The recently described fossil albuneid Paralbunea galantensis De Angeli and Marangon differs from the type of the genus Paralbunea Serène and is herein made the type species of a new genus, Harryhausenia , which is closely related to Zygopa Serène and Umali. A discussion is given on the relationships between the new genus and Zygopa , as well as between Zygopa and other albuneid taxa. |
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| Keywords: | Hippoidea Zygopa Paralbunea phylogeny taxonomy |
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