Dorippidae

Guinot, Danièle, 2023, A new subfamily classification of the highly diversified Dorippidae H. Milne Edwards, 1837 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Dorippoidea), using morphological, molecular and palaeotonlogical data, with special emphasis on its unique female reproductive system, Zoosystema 45 (9), pp. 225-372 : 363

Dorippidae sp.

Dorippidae sp. – Artal & Gilles 2007: 8, fig. 3C.

Medorippe sensu Artal & Gilles 2007 – Van Bakel et al. 2020: fig.10.30.

REMARKS

The crab found in the Miocene of Pignan (southeastern France), attributed to the Dorippidae by Artal & Gilles (2007: 8, fig. 3C), with a possible assignment to Medorippe , indicated as ‘ Medorippe sp. sensu Artal & Gilles 2007 ’ by Van Bakel et al. (2020: fig. 10.30), is not a dorippid. The narrow carapace with parallel lateral margins, the simple and spatulate rostrum and the sinuous entire orbital margin are like those of a retroplumid. Generally, the carapace of Retroplumidae is wide, rectangular and has several transverse ridges, therefore this unnamed species with a subquadrate carapace and an apparently lobulated and granulated dorsal surface would represent a rare form in this family. Bacapluma aragonensis Ortega, Fernández, Ferratges, Kwekel, Laguna, Maza & Méndez, 2013, from the Eocene of Huesca (Aragon, Spain) (not cited in Schweitzer & Feldmann (2018), could be the closest form. A comparison with the many species of Archaeopus Rathbun, 1908 , where there is a wide range of carapace morphology, from quadrate to subquadrate and in which transveres ridges are replaced by swellings or linear tubercles over defined regions (Nyborg et al. 2019b), would be useful.