Paralithodes bishuensis

Paralithodes bishuensis Temporal range: Early Miocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Suborder:	Pleocyemata
Infraorder:	Anomura
Family:	Lithodidae
Genus:	Paralithodes
Species:	†P. bishuensis
Binomial name
†Paralithodes bishuensis Karasawa & Ando in Karasawa, Mizuno, Hachiya & Ando, 2017 [1]

Paralithodes bishuensis is an extinct species of king crab that lived in Japan during the Early Miocene. ^{[1] [2]}

Taxonomy

Paralithodes bishuensis was described in 2017 by paleontologists Hiroaki Karasawa and Yusuke Ando from a juvenile fossil in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. ^[3] It represented the first Paralithodes fossil. ^[4]

References

1. Karasawa et al. 2017, p. 47.
2. De Grave, Sammy (7 February 2023). "Paralithodes bishuensis Karasawa & Ando in Karasawa, Mizuno, Hachiya & Ando, 2017 †". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species . Retrieved 13 July 2025.
3. Karasawa et al. 2017, pp. 47, 50.
4. Karasawa et al. 2017, p. 52.

Works cited

• Karasawa, Hiroaki; Mizuno, Yoshiaki; Hachiya, Kiichiro; Ando, Yusuke (March 2017). "Reappraisal of anomuran and brachyuran decapods from the lower Miocene Morozaki Group, Japan, collected by the Tokai Fossil Society" (PDF). Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum (43): 47–69. ISSN   0385-0900 . Retrieved 5 December 2024– via the Mizunami Fossil Museum.