Derilambrus, Tan & Ng, 2007

Garassino, Alessandro, Pasini, Giovanni, Angeli, Antonio De & Hyžný, MatÚš, 2014, The decapod fauna (Axiidea, Anomura, Brachyura) from the Late Pleistocene of Trumbacà, Reggio Calabria (Calabria, southern Italy), Natural History Sciences 1 (2), pp. 119-130 : 126

Derilambrus cf. D. angulifrons (Latreille, 1825)

Material and measurements: Two small incomplete?meri (MSNM i27905).

Description: Elongate?meri, trigonal in transverse section, and strong spines arrayed in longitudinal rows along the margins.

Discussion. The studied small specimens show elongate?meri, trigonal in transverse section, and strong spines arrayed in longitudinal rows along the margins, typical characters of the representatives of the family Parthenopidae and especially of Derilambrus Tan & Ng, 2007 . The specimens could be tentatively ascribed to juvenile individuals of Derilambrus cf. D. angulifrons , previously reported in the fossil record of Italy from the Sicilian (Early Pleistocene) of Favignana Island (Sicily, southern Italy) by Garassino & De Angeli (2004b), and from the Zanclean (Early Pliocene) of “La Serra” quarry ( Pisa , Tuscany, central Italy), by Garassino et al. (2012). Moreover we point out that the very similar, small chelipeds described by Ristori (1891b) from the Pliocene (now Pleistocene) of Monte Mario (Rome, central Italy), and by Garassino & De Angeli (2004a) from the Pliocene and Pleistocene of Emilia Romagna (northern Italy), ascribed respectively to Lambrus ? sp. and to Parthenope sp. , could be also assigned to D. angulifrons . The extant species lives at depths between 2 and 80 meter deep in the Mediterranean Sea and southwestern Spain, inhabiting on mudsandy bottoms or along submarine seamounts and knolls in deeper waters.