Ranina is a genus of crabs belonging to the family Raninidae. It has two extant species.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Brachyura |
| Family: | Raninidae |
| Subfamily: | Ranininae De Haan, 1839 |
| Genus: | Ranina Lamarck, 1801 |
Fossils of these crabs have been found in the sediments of United States, Mexico, Spain, Italy, Turkey and Australia from the Paleogene period to Recent (age range: 48.6 to 0.0 Ma).[1]
Species
editSpecies within this genus include:[1][2]
- † Ranina americana Withers, 1924
- † Ranina berglundi Squires and Demetrion, 1992
- Ranina bouilleana Milne-Edwards, 1872
- † Ranina brevispina Lorenthey, 1898
- † Ranina burleighensis Holland and Cvancara, 1958
- † Ranina cuspidata Guppy, 1909
- † Ranina elegans Rathbun, 1945
- † Ranina granulosa Milne-Edwards, 1872
- † Ranina haszlinskyi Reuss, 1859
- † Ranina hirsuta Schafhautl, 1863
- † Ranina lamiensis Rathbun, 1945
- † Ranina molengraaffi Van Straelen, 1924
- † Ranina oblonga Munster, 1840
- † Ranina palmea Sismonda, 1846
- † Ranina porifera Woodward, 1866
- † Ranina propinqua Ristori, 1891
- † Ranina quinquespinosa Rathbun, 1945
- Ranina ranina Linnaeus, 1758 (the only extant species)
- † Ranina speciosa Munster, 1840
- † Ranina tejoniana Rathbun, 1926