Cancridae

Cancridae
Cancer pagurus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Infraorder: Brachyura
Superfamily: Cancroidea
Family: Cancridae
Latreille, 1802 [1]
Subfamilies
  • Cancrinae Latreille, 1802
  • Lobocarcininae Beurlen, 1930

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

Until 2000, the extant species were all classified in genus Cancer. After an analysis of new fossil material, the subgenera were elevated to the rank of genus, and three new genera were erected.[3] Most of the family's current diversity is found in temperate waters of the Northern Hemisphere.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 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.
  2. Sammy De Grave; N. Dean Pentcheff; Shane T. Ahyong; et al. (2009). "A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. Suppl. 21: 1–109. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-06.
  3. 1 2 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.

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