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Science 28 May 1976:
Vol. 192. no. 4242, p. 884
DOI: 10.1126/science.192.4242.884
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Neoglyphea inopinata: A Crustacean "Living Fossil" from the Philippines

JACQUES FOREST 1, MICHÈLE DE SAINT LAURENT 1, and FENNER A. CHACE JR. 2

1 Laboratoire de Zoologie (Arthropodes), Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 75005 Paris, France
2 Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20560

The discovery of an existing member of the Glypheidae, a family believed to have been extinct since the Eocene, may yield significant information on the evolution and classification of the decapod Crustacea. The single known specimen displays characters not apparent in fossil material, some of them perhaps representative of an ancestral decapod lineage, others reminiscent of the Astacidea and Thalassinidea.

Submitted on January 12, 1976
Revised on February 17, 1976


THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
THE DECAPODA: NEW INITIATIVES AND NOVEL APPROACHES.
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