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Cancridae

Cancer pagurus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Infraorder:	Brachyura
Superfamily:	Cancroidea
Family:	Cancridae Latreille, 1802 ^[1]
Genera
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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

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.

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Wikispecies

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Cancer anthonyi

Taxonavigation

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Cladus: Eukaryota
Supergroup: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Classis: Malacostraca
Subclassis: Eumalacostraca
Superordo: Eucarida
Ordo: Decapoda
Subordo: Pleocyemata
Infraordo: Brachyura
Sectio: Eubrachyura
Subsectio: Heterotremata
Superfamilia: Cancroidea
Familia: Cancridae
Genera: Anatolikos - Cancer - Glebocarcinus - Metacarcinus - Platepistoma - Romaleon

Name

Cancridae Latreille, 1803

Reference

Latreille, P.A. (1803). Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière, des Crustacés et des Insectes. Paris : F. Dufart Vol. 3 467 pp.

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