%0 Journal Article
%T A preliminary review of the fossil species of Ranina Lamarck, 1801 (Decapoda, Brachyura, Raninidae), with systematic remarks
							| Natural History Sciences
%A Aless
%A Giovanni Pasini
%A ro Garassino
%J Natural History Sciences
%D 2017
%R https://doi.org/10.4081/nhs.2017.310
%X The systematics of the fossil representatives of Ranina Lamark, 1810, has been discussed by several authors in the last century, showing some problematics above all due to the lack of a close diagnosis of the type species (R. ranina) and to the scarce number of well-preserved type series of each fossil species. However, based upon a close comparison among the type series of each species, authors¡¯ original descriptions, and the main diagnostic characters of Ranina, this preliminary review finds that twelve species have to be considered as doubtful species within Ranina, as follows: ?Ranina americana Withers, 1924, ?R. berglundi Squires & Demetrion, 1992, ?R. bouilleana A. Milne Edwards, 1872, ?R. brevispina L£¿renthey, 1898, ?R. granulosa A. Milne Edwards, 1872, ?R. griesbachi Noetling, 1897, ?R. haszlinskyi Reuss, 1859, ?R. libyca (Van Straelen, 1935), ?R. molengraaffi Van Straelen, 1924, ?R. oblonga (von Mu£¿nster, 1840), ?R. ornata De Angeli & Beschin, 2011, and ?R. speciosa (von Mu£¿nster, 1840). Four species have to be considered as Ranina nomina dubia, as follows: Ranina elegans Rathbun, 1945, R. hirsuta (Schafh£¿utl, 1863), R. lamiensis Rathbun, 1945, and R. tejoniana Rathbun, 1926. Ranina bavarica Ebert, 1887, R. fabri Schafh£¿utl, 1863, and R. helii Schafh£¿utl, 1863, have to be assigned to Lophoranina Fabiani, 1910. Ranina cuspidata Guppy, 1909, has to be assigned to Calappa Weber, 1795 (Calappidae De Haan, 1833). Finally, R. burleighensis Holland in Holland & Cvancara, 1958, has to be considered as doubtful species within Decapoda
%K Decapoda
%K Brachyura
%K Raninidae
%K Ranina
%U https://sisn.pagepress.org/index.php/nhs/article/view/310