WoRMS taxon details
Cancridae Latreille, 1802
AphiaID: 106749
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 |
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| 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 |
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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 2013-05-18 | ||||||||||||||
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