Acanthochirana

Acanthochirana
Temporal range: Jurassic
Acanthochirana longipes
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Dendrobranchiata
Family: †Aegeridae
Genus: †Acanthochirana
Strand, 1928 [1][2]

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]

  1. ^ Strand, E. (1928). "Miscellanea nomenclatoria zoologica et palaeontologica" [Miscellaneous geological and palaeontological nomenclature]. Archiv für Naturgeschichte. I–II (in Italian). 92A (8): 40–41.
  2. ^ a b 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.
  3. ^ W. Dall (1990). The Biology of the Penaeidae. Advances in marine biology. Volume 27. Academic Press. ISBN 978-0-12-026127-7.
  4. ^ Creepy Crawlies: Ladybugs, Lobsters & Other Amazing Arthropods. Sterling Publishing Company. 1991. p. 106. ISBN 978-0-8069-8336-3.
  5. ^ 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.