Dorippe sinica Chen, 1980

Dorippe (Dorippe) sinica Chen, 1980: 154, fig. 1, pl. 1.

Dorippe sinica – Karasawa et al. 2021: 139, 146, pl. 2, fig. 20. — Ando et al. 2022: 132, pl. 2, fig. A.

REMARKS

Two carapace fragments allocated to the Recent species Dorippe sinica are shown in the Illustrated catalogue of Decapoda from the Middle Pleistocene Atsumi Group, Japan by Karasawa et al. (2021). The strongly tuberculated carapace, although it appears longer and too narrow anteriorly, is reminiscent of the extant Dorippe sinica (Fig. 10C, D), very common in Japan. Dorippe sinica was recently found in Holocene deposits in the Shimizu Port, Shizuoka City, Japan (Ando et al. 2022: 132, pl. 2, fig. A). The species belongs to the Dorippinae n. stat ..