Medorippe lanata (Linnaeus, 1767)

Cancer lanatus Linnaeus, 1767: 1044 .

? Dorippe lanata – Gemmellaro 1914: 78, pl. 1, fig. 2 (nec Cancer lanatus Linnaeus, 1767); see Garassino et al. 2004: 262 (as Medorippe lanata).

Dorippe lanata – Glaessner 1929: 137.

Medorippe lanata – Holthuis & Manning 1990: 7. — Schweitzer et al. 2010: 79. — Garassino et al. 2014b: 124, fig. 2C. — De Angeli et al. 2019: 58. — Sasaki 2019: 7792. — Van Bakel et al. 2020: fig. 10.35. — Schweitzer et al. 2021: 3.

REMARKS

Gemmellaro (1914, as Dorippe lanata) was the first to report some specimens from the Late Pleistocene of Sicily. The second fossil report in the Mediterranean area is from Garassino et al. (2014b: fig. 2C) for a well-preserved male specimen (carapace and ventral surface) from the Late Pleistocene of Calabria (southern Italy): all its features seem to indicate a Medorippe lanata (Figs 3C; 22A, B), with its lateral spine, the two main carapace grooves, the rather straight posterior margin of the carapace. The cardiac region is ornamented, but the Y-shaped ridge characteristic of the extant species is not clearly distinct. Anyway, the species belongs to the Medorippinae n. subfam.