Tutus Collins et al. 2009 (box crab)

Malacostraca - Decapoda - Calappidae

Full reference: J. S. H. Collins, R. W. Portell, and S. K. Donovan. 2009. Decapod crustaceans from the Neogene of the Caribbean: diversity, distribution and prospectus. Scripta Geologica 138:55-111

Parent taxon: Calappidae according to C. E. Schweitzer and R. M. Feldmann 2019

See also Luque et al. 2017 and Schweitzer et al. 2010

Sister taxa: Acanthocarpus, Bittnerilia, Calappa, Calappella, Calappilia, Calappinae, Carinocalappa, Corallomursia, Corallomursinae, Cryptosoma, Cycloes, Matutinae, Mursia, Mursilata, Mursilia, Mursiopsis, Nantocyclois, Necrocarcininae, Paracorallomursia, Paracyclois, Pseudocorallomursia, Pseudomicippella, Stenodromia, Tavernolesia

Subtaxa: Tutus granulosus

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Type: Tutus granulosus

Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Tintamarre (Miocene of North Atlantic)

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