Prebranchioplax, Vega & Ahyong, 2021

Vega, Francisco & Ahyong, Shane T., 2021, Validation of Prebranchioplax cretacica Vega & Ahyong, a fossil mathildellid crab from the Upper Cretaceous of northeast Mexico (Crustacea: Decapoda: Goneplacoidea), Zootaxa 5004 (3), pp. 498-500 : 498

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5004.3.8
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:A92842F0-5773-4733-A868-5760BA31AB4A
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5120863
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B9287C-821A-FF81-FF26-2C8E59654B4C
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Prebranchioplax
status	gen. nov.

Treatment

Prebranchioplax View in CoL gen. nov.

Prebranchioplax Vega & Ahyong View in CoL in Vega et al. 2018: 65 [unavailable].

Type species. Prebranchioplax cretacica View in CoL sp. nov. Gender: feminine.

Diagnosis. As for the type species.

Etymology. On being a possible precursor to the genus Branchioplax Rathbun, 1916 .

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Malacostraca
Order	Decapoda
Family	Mathildellidae

Prebranchioplax

Vega, Francisco & Ahyong, Shane T. 2021

2021

Prebranchioplax

Vega, F. J. & Ahyong, S. T. & Espinosa, B. & Flores-Ventura, J. & Luna, L. & Gonzalez-Gonzalez, A. H. 2018: 65

2018

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