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Cancridae Latreille, 1802 
AphiaID: 106749

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Eucarida (Superorder) > Decapoda (Order) > Pleocyemata (Suborder) > Brachyura (Infraorder) > Eubrachyura (Section) > Heterotremata (Subsection) > Cancroidea (Superfamily)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Family
Parent Cancroidea
Sources  basis of record: Türkay, M. (2001). Decapoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 284-292 (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: d'Udekem d'Acoz, C. (1999). Inventaire et distribution des crustacés décapodes de l'Atlantique nord-oriental, de la Méditerranée et des eaux continentales adjacentes au nord de 25°N [Inventory and distribution of the decapod crustaceans from the northeastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean and the adjacent continental waters north of 25°N]. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 40. Muséum national d'Histoire Naturelle: Paris, France. ISBN 2-86515-114-10. X, 383 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
Dutch Noordzeekrabben  [details]
English edible crabs  [details]
Direct child
taxa

[show all]
 Genus Anatolikos Schweitzer & Feldmann, 2000
Genus Cancer Linnaeus, 1758
Genus Glebocarcinus Nations, 1975
Genus Metacarcinus A. Milne-Edwards, 1862
Genus Platepistoma Rathbun, 1906
Genus Romaleon Gistel, 1848
Environment marine
Feedingtypes  omnivore [details]
predator [details]
scavenger [details]
Links To GenBank
To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:106749
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Türkay, Michael
2005-03-24 08:41:58Z  changed  Cuvelier, Daphne
2009-12-15 09:56:25Z  changed  Davie, Peter
  
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  Citation: Davie, P.; Türkay, M. (2013). Cancridae. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=106749 on 2013-05-25
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