WoRMS taxon details
Carcinus maenas (Linnaeus, 1758)
AphiaID: 107381
AphiaID: 107381
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Eucarida (Superorder) > Decapoda (Order) > Pleocyemata (Suborder) > Brachyura (Infraorder) > Eubrachyura (Section) > Heterotremata (Subsection) > Portunoidea (Superfamily) > Portunidae (Family) > Carcininae (Subfamily) > Carcinus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Carcinus Leach, 1814 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Cancer granarius Herbst, 1783 (synonym) Cancer granulatus Say, 1817 (synonym) Cancer maenas Linnaeus, 1758 (basionym) Cancer pygmeus Fabricius, 1787 Cancer rhomboidalis Montagu, 1804 Cancer viridis Herbst, 1783 (synonym) Carcinus granulatus Smith, 1857 (synonym) Carcinus moenas (Linnaeus, 1758) (misspelling) Megalopa montagui Leach, 1817 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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] basis of record: Crosnier, A. (1962). Faune de Madagascar. XVI Crustaces Decapodes: Portunidae. [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: Trott, T.J. 2004. Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. Northeastern Naturalist (Special Issue 2): 261 - 324. page(s): 291 [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 |
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| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Atlantic [details] Australia [details] Azores [details] Belgian Coast [details] Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Bray-Dunes [details] Bredene [details] British Isles [details] Canada [details] De Haan [details] De Panne [details] Dutch Exclusive Economic Zone [details] East Atlantic [details] East Pacific [details] English Channel [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] FAO fishing area 34 [details] FAO fishing area 47 [details] Grevelingen [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Hout Bay [details] Icelandic Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Indo-Pacific [details] Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details] Lombardsijde [details] Madagascar [details] Mauritania [details] Mediterranean Sea [details] Middelkerke [details] Moroccan Exclusive Economic Zone [details] North Coast of Norway [details] North East Atlantic [details] North Sea [details] North West Atlantic [details] Norwegian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Oostduinkerke [details] Oostende [details] Oosterschelde [details] Red Sea [details] Saldanha Bay [details] Sas van Goes [details] Schelde estuary [details] South Africa (country) [details] Spuikom [details] Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Table Bay [details] United Kingdom [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] USA [details] Voordelta [details] Wadden Sea [details] West Africa [details] West Atlantic [details] West Coast of Norway [details] West Coast of South Africa [details] Westerschelde [details] Wimereux [details] Zeebrugge [details] Zeeschelde [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Feedingtype | carnivore [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Host of |
Choniosphaera maenadis (Bloch & Gallien, 1933) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Portunion maenadis (Giard, 1886) (parasitic: endoparasitic) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Links | BIOTIC Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland Marine Life Information Network - UK PlanktonNet Image To Barcode of Life (131 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (478 publications) To Dyntaxa To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (15830 nucleotides; 275 proteins) To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Decapod Collection To ITIS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Diet: Eats other invertebrates. [details] Distribution: Nova Scotia to Virginia [details] Habitat: Primarily intertidal and shallow subtidal areas, 0-60 m depth, rarely to 200 m, common under rocks and algae, tide pools, marshes and seagrass beds, found in low to full salinity areas. [details] Habitat: Known from rocky shores. [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:107381 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Fransen, C.; Türkay, M. (2013). Carcinus maenas (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=107381 on 2013-05-22 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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