Cancridae
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Infraorder: | Brachyura |
| Superfamily: | Cancroidea |
| Family: | Cancridae Latreille, 1802 [1] |
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Cancridae is a family of crabs. It comprises six extant genera,[1] and eleven exclusively fossil genera,[2] in two subfamilies:
Cancrinae Latreille, 1802
- Anatolikos Schweitzer & Feldmann, 2000
- †Anisospinos Schweitzer & Feldmann, 2000
- Cancer Linnaeus, 1758
- †Ceronnectes De Angeli & Beschin, 1998
- †Cyclocancer Beurlen, 1958
- Glebocarcinus Nations, 1975
- Metacarcinus A. Milne-Edwards, 1862
- †Microdium Reuss, 1867
- †Notocarcinus Schweitzer & Feldmann, 2000
- Platepistoma Rathbun, 1906
- Romaleon Gistel, 1848
- †Santeecarcinus Blow & Manning, 1996
- †Sarahcarcinus Blow & Manning, 1996
†Lobocarcininae Beurlen, 1930
- †Lobocarcinus Reuss, 1857
- †Miocyclus Müller, 1978
- †Tasadia Müller in Janssen & Müller, 1984
Before 2000, the extant species were all placed in a single genus, but in that year Carrie Schweitzer and Rodney Feldmann elevated the existing subgenera to the rank of genus, and described three additional genera.[3] Most of the family's current diversity is found in temperate waters of the Northern Hemisphere.[3]
[edit] References
- ^ a b Peter K. L. Ng, Danièle Guinot & Peter J. F. Davie (2008). "Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world". Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 17: 1–286. http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s17/s17rbz.pdf.
- ^ Sammy De Grave, N. Dean Pentcheff, Shane T. Ahyong et al. (2009). "A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans". Raffles Bulletin of Zoology Suppl. 21: 1–109. http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s21/s21rbz1-109.pdf.
- ^ a b P. J. F. Davie (2002). "Cancridae". Crustacea: Malocostraca: Eucarida (Part 2), Decapoda: Anomura, Brachyura. Zoological Catalogue of Australia. 19. CSIRO Publishing. pp. 132–134. ISBN 978-0-643-06792-9. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=jr9SR1Cr5BAC&pg=PA132.
[edit] External links
- Peter Davie & Michael Türkay (2011). "Cancridae". World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=106749.
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