Notopus

Notopus is a genus of frog crabs from the family Raninidae,^[1] it consists of a single extant species and two extinct species.^[2]

Notopus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Suborder:	Pleocyemata
Infraorder:	Brachyura
Family:	Raninidae
Genus:	Notopus de Haan, 1841[1]
Type species
Cancer dorsipes Linnaeus, 1758
Species[1]
See text

Species

The three species classified under Notopus are set out below together with the geological frame for the two extinct species which are marked with †:^[2]

• Notopus beyrichi† Bittner, 1875 - middle Eocene-lower Oligocene
• Notopus dorsipes (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Notopus muelleri† (van Binkhorst, 1857) - upper Maastrichtian