Acanthochirana is an extinct genus of prawn that existed during the upper Jurassic period.[3] It was named by E. Strand in 1928, and its type species is Acanthochirana cordata.[2][4] They are distinguished from the related genus Aeger by the presence of teeth on the rostrum, which are absent in Aeger.[5]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Dendrobranchiata |
| Family: | †Aegeridae |
| Genus: | †Acanthochirana Strand, 1928 [1][2] |
Species
editAs of 2014[update], Acanthochirana includes six to seven species:[6][a]
- Acanthochirana angulata (Oppel, 1862)
- Acanthochirana cenomanica (Glaessner, 1946)[a]
- Acanthochirana cordata (Münster, 1839)[b]
- Acanthochirana krausei (Förster, 1967)
- Acanthochirana liburiansis (Garassino, Audo, Charbonnier & Schweigert, 2014)
- Acanthochirana smithwoodwardi (Van Straelen, 1940)
- Acanthochirana triassica (Garassino, Schweigert & Muscio, 2013)
Notes
editReferences
edit- ^ Strand, E. (1928). "Miscellanea nomenclatoria zoologica et palaeontologica" [Miscellaneous geological and palaeontological nomenclature]. Archiv für Naturgeschichte. I–II (in Italian). 92A (8): 40–41.
- ^ a b c De Grave, Sammy; Pentcheff, N. Dean; Ahyong, Shane T.; et al. (2009). "A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. Suppl. 21: 1–109. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-06 – via the National University of Singapore.
- ^ W. Dall (1990). The Biology of the Penaeidae. Advances in marine biology. Volume 27. Academic Press. ISBN 978-0-12-026127-7.
- ^ Creepy Crawlies: Ladybugs, Lobsters & Other Amazing Arthropods. Sterling Publishing Company. 1991. p. 106. ISBN 978-0-8069-8336-3.
- ^ Etter, Walter (2004). "Decapod crustaceans from the Middle Jurassic Opalinus Clay of northern Switzerland, with comments on crustacean taphonomy" (PDF). Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae. 97 (3): 381–392. doi:10.1007/s00015-004-1137-2.
- ^ a b c Garassino, Alessandro; Schweigert, Günter; Muscio, Giuseppe (2013). "Acanthochirana triassica N. Sp. and Antrimpos Colettoi N. Sp. (Decapoda: Aegeridae, Penaeidae) From the Upper Triassic (Norian) of Northern Carnic Pre-Alps (Udine, Northeastern Italy)" (PDF). Gortania (Geologia, Paleontologia, Paletnologia). 35: 11–18. ISSN 2038-0410 – via the Civic Museum of Udine.
- ^ Bravi, Sergio; Garassino, Alessandro; Bartiromo, Antonello; et al. (2014). "Middle Jurassic Monte Fallano Plattenkalk (Campania, southern Italy): first report on terrestrial plants, decapod crustaceans and fishes" (PDF). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie. 272 (1): 79–107. doi:10.1127/0077-7749/2014/0398. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2021-11-16 – via ResearchGate.
External links
edit- Acanthochirana at the Paleobiology Database
Media related to Acanthochirana at Wikimedia Commons
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