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Hyas araneus (Linnaeus, 1758) 
AphiaID: 107322

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Eucarida (Superorder) > Decapoda (Order) > Pleocyemata (Suborder) > Brachyura (Infraorder) > Eubrachyura (Section) > Heterotremata (Subsection) > Majoidea (Superfamily) > Oregoniidae (Family) > Hyas (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Hyas Leach, 1814
Synonymised
taxa
  Cancer bufo Herbst, 1790 (synonym)
Hyas araneus var. hoeki Birula, 1897 (synonym)
Inachus araneus Fabricius, 1798 (synonym)
Sources  original description: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [details]

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: 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]

additional source: 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]

additional source: 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: Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013]., available online at http://www.dyntaxa.se [details]

additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

additional source: Adema, J.P.H.M. (1991). De krabben van Nederland en Belgie (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura) [The crabs of the Netherlands and Belgium (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura)]. Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum: Leiden, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-73239-02-8. 244 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
Danish sandkrabbe  [details]
Dutch augustiner  [details]
Dutch duivelskrabbetje  [details]
Dutch gewone spinkrab  [details]
Dutch muiskrab  [details]
Dutch spinkrab  [details]
Dutch zeespin  [details]
English great spider crab  [details]
French araignée nordique  [details]
German nordische Seespinne  [details]
German Zaikobbe  [details]
Swedish hövre  [details]
Direct child
taxa

[show all]
 
Variety Hyas araneus var. hoeki Birula, 1897 accepted as Hyas araneus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Environment marine
Distribution Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Birkenfels (shipwreck) [details]
Blankenberge [details]
British Isles [details]
Canadian Exclusive Economic Zone [Atlantic part] [details]
Cobscook Bay [details]
Danish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Dutch Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
English Channel [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Faeroes [details]
German Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Greenlandic Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Gulf of St. Lawrence [details]
Hinder Banks [details]
Icelandic Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details]
Knokke [details]
Koksijde [details]
Manicouagan [details]
Nieuwpoort [details]
North East Atlantic [details]
North Sea [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Norwegian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Oostende [details]
Oosterschelde [details]
Saguenay Fjord [details]
Saint Lawrence River [details]
Schelde estuary [details]
Spitsbergen [details]
St. Lawrence Estuary [details]
Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Thorntonbank [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Wadden Sea [details]
Wandelaar [details]
West Coast of Norway  [details]
Westerschelde [details]
Westhinder [details]
Wimereux [details]
Zeebrugge [details]
Feedingtypes  omnivore [details]
predator [details]
scavenger [details]
Links Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland
Marine Life Information Network - UK
To Barcode of Life (23 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (270 publications)
To Dyntaxa
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (26 nucleotides; 18 proteins)
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Decapod Collection
To ITIS
Notes  Distribution: Labrador to Rhode Island [details]

Habitat: intertidal, infralittoral and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details]
Images 
Hyas araneus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Hyas araneus (Linnaeus, 1758)
added on 2006-08-09 - author: IMARES ()
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Hyas araneus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Hyas araneus (Linnaeus, 1758)
added on 2006-08-09 - author: IMARES ()
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Hyas araneus
Hyas araneus
added on 2008-11-09 - author: Collection Georges Declercq
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Hyas araneus + Hyas coarctatus
Hyas araneus + Hyas coarctatus
added on 2008-11-09 - author: Collection Georges Declercq
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Hyas araneus - dried
Hyas araneus - dried
added on 2010-02-17 - author: Nozères, Claude
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Hyas araneus - small and large
Hyas araneus - small and large
added on 2011-02-19 - author: Nozères, Claude
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Hyas araneus
Hyas araneus
added on 2011-04-20 - author: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Catriona Day ()
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Hyas araneus
Hyas araneus
added on 2011-04-20 - author: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Catriona Day ()
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LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:107322
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Türkay, Michael
  
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  Citation: Türkay, M. (2013). Hyas araneus (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=107322 on 2013-05-20
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