Biology:Palaeobenthesicymus

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Short description: Extinct genus of crustaceans


Palaeobenthesicymus libanensis
Temporal range: Santonian
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Palaeobenthesicymus

Audo & Charbonnier, 2013
Species:
P. libanensis
Binomial name
Palaeobenthesicymus libanensis
(Brocchi, 1875)
Synonyms
  • Penaeus libanensis Brocchi, 1875
  • Benthesicymus libanensis (Brocchi, 1875)

Palaeobenthesicymus is an extinct genus of prawns which existed in what is now Lebanon in the Late Santonian. It was described by Denis Audo and Sylvain Charbonnier in 2013, as a new genus for the species Penaeus libanensis, first described by P. Brocchi in 1875.[1]

References

Wikidata ☰ Q7126395 entry