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Cancer borealis Stimpson, 1859 
AphiaID: 158056

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) > Cancridae (Family) > Cancer (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Cancer Linnaeus, 1758
Sources  basis of record: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

basis of record: Brunel, P., Bosse, L. & Lamarche, G. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 p. (look up in IMIS[details]

basis of record: Pohle, G.W. 1990. A guide to decapod Crustacea from the Canadian Atlantic: Anomura and Brachyura. Canadian Technical Report of Fisheries and Aquatic Science 1771. 29 p. [details]

basis of record: Squires, W.A. 1976. The birds of New Brunswick. Second Edition. The New Brunswick Museum. Saint John. 221 p. [details]

basis of record: Trott, T.J. 2004. Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. Northeastern Naturalist (Special Issue 2): 261 - 324. [details]

additional source: Felder, D. L., F. Álvarez, J. W. Goy, and R. Lemaitre. 2009. Decapoda (Crustacea) of the Gulf of Mexico, with Comments on the Amphionidacea, Pp. 1019–1104 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas [details]

context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

Distribution Cobscook Bay [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (22 nucleotides; 23 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Decapod Collection
To ITIS
Notes  Distribution: Grand Banks to south of Tortugas, Florida [details]

Habitat: infralittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details]
Images 
Cancer borealis
Cancer borealis
added on 2010-02-21 - author: Nozères, Claude
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Cancer borealis megalopa
Cancer borealis megalopa
added on 2011-04-12 - author: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, J.M. Spry ()
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Cancer borealis megalopa
Cancer borealis megalopa
added on 2011-04-12 - author: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, J.M. Spry ()
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Cancer borealis
Cancer borealis
added on 2011-04-20 - author: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Catriona Day ()
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Cancer borealis
Cancer borealis
added on 2011-04-20 - author: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Catriona Day ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:158056
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-05-25 08:24:16Z  created  Cuvelier, Daphne
2010-02-25 15:57:43Z  changed  Davie, Peter
  
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  Citation: Davie, P. (2013). Cancer borealis Stimpson, 1859. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=158056 on 2013-05-22
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