Liocarcinus
Appearance
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Liocarcinus | |
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Liocarcinus marmoreus | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Order: | Decapoda |
Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
Infraorder: | Brachyura |
Superfamily: | Portunoidea |
Family: | Polybiidae |
Genus: | Liocarcinus Stimpson, 1858 |
Type species | |
Portunus holsatus Fabricius, 1798
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Liocarcinus is a genus of crabs, which includes the flying crab, the vernal crab and several other swimming crabs.
Species
[edit]It includes 12 species :[1]
Image | Scientific name | Common name | Distribution |
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Liocarcinus bolivari (Zariquiey Alvarez, 1948) | eastern Mediterranean | ||
Liocarcinus corrugatus (Pennant, 1777) | wrinkled swimming crab | Angola to the British Isles and the Mediterranean, and Japan to Australia and New Zealand | |
Liocarcinus depurator (Linnaeus, 1758) | blue-leg swimming crab, harbour crab, sandy swimming crab | Northeast Atlantic and the Mediterranean | |
Liocarcinus holsatus (Fabricius, 1798) | flying crab | North Sea, Irish Sea and English Channel. | |
Liocarcinus maculatus (Risso, 1827) | Mediterranean Sea. | ||
Liocarcinus marmoreus (Leach, 1814) | marbled swimming crab | North Sea | |
Liocarcinus navigator (Herbst, 1794) | Northeast Atlantic and the Mediterranean | ||
Liocarcinus pusillus (Leach, 1815) | dwarf swimming crab | Northeast Atlantic | |
Liocarcinus rondeletii (Risso, 1816) | |||
Liocarcinus subcorrugatus (A. Milne-Edwards, 1861) | |||
Liocarcinus vernalis (Risso, 1816) | vernal crab | Western Central Pacific, Northeast Atlantic and the Mediterranean | |
Liocarcinus zariquieyi Gordon, 1968 | Mediterranean Sea |
Fossils
[edit]- †Liocarcinus atropatanus (Aslanova & Dschafarova, 1975)
- †Liocarcinus kuehni (Bachmayer, 1953)
- †Liocarcinus lancetidactylus (Smirnov, 1929)
- †Liocarcinus oroszyi (Bachmayer, 1953)
- †Liocarcinus praearcuatus Müller, 1996
- †Liocarcinus rakosensis (Lőrenthey in Lőrenthey & Beurlen, 1929)
References
[edit]- ^ 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" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 17: 1–286. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-06.
External links
[edit]- Media related to Liocarcinus at Wikimedia Commons