New look at the lobster Eryma greppini, Oppel, 1861 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Erymidae) from the Middle Jurassic of France and Switzerland - MNHN - Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle Access content directly
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New look at the lobster Eryma greppini, Oppel, 1861 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Erymidae) from the Middle Jurassic of France and Switzerland

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Erymid lobsters (Decapoda, Erymidae) are a relatively abundant family of decapod crustaceans with a presumed conservative morphology. For these reasons, numerous species of erymids have been synonymized with others by early efforts to review the family. Eryma greppini Oppel, 1861, is one of these. A well-preserved specimen of erymid lobster assigned to this species has recently been traced in the palaeontological collections from the Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (France). Study of this specimen and examination of the type material of Eryma greppini, Eryma affinis Ferry, 1865, and Eryma bedeltum (Quenstedt, 1857) lead us to consider Eryma greppini to be a valid species, characterized by a peculiar pair of dorsal domes. A lectotype is herein designated for Eryma greppini. This study is a first step toward the necessary revision of erymid lobsters and proves the importance of taxonomic studies based on type material.
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mnhn-03823041 , version 1 (20-10-2022)

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Sylvain Charbonnier, Alessandro Garassino, Günter Schweigert, Denis Audo, Sophie Fernandez. New look at the lobster Eryma greppini, Oppel, 1861 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Erymidae) from the Middle Jurassic of France and Switzerland. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen, 2014, 272 (3), pp.331-339. ⟨10.1127/0077-7749/2014/0411⟩. ⟨mnhn-03823041⟩
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