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Cancer irroratus Say, 1817 
AphiaID: 158057

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) > Cancridae (Family) > Cancer (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Cancer Linnaeus, 1758
Synonymised
taxa
  Cancer sayi Gould, 1841
Sources  basis of record: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

basis of record: 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]

basis of record: 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]

basis of record: 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: Felder, D. L., F. Álvarez, J. W. Goy, and R. Lemaitre. 2009. Decapoda (Crustacea) of the Gulf of Mexico, with Comments on the Amphionidacea, Pp. 1019–1104 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas [details]

context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English rock crab  [details]
Distribution Cobscook Bay [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
Gulf of St. Lawrence [details]
Manicouagan [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Saint Lawrence River [details]
St. Lawrence Estuary [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (18 barcodes)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To ITIS
Notes  Distribution: Labrador to Florida (incl. Gulf of St. Lawrence) [details]

Habitat: intertidal, infralittoral and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details]
Images 
Cancer irroratus - dried
Cancer irroratus - dried
added on 2010-02-17 - author: Nozères, Claude
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Cancer irroratus - rock crab
Cancer irroratus - rock crab
added on 2011-01-04 - author: Nozères, Claude
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Cancer irroratus
Cancer irroratus
added on 2011-02-02 - author: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Melisa Wong ()
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Cancer irroratus
Cancer irroratus
added on 2011-02-02 - author: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Melisa Wong ()
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Cancer irroratus
Cancer irroratus
added on 2011-04-20 - author: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Catriona Day ()
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LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:158057
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-05-25 08:24:16Z  created  Cuvelier, Daphne
2010-02-25 15:57:43Z  changed  Davie, Peter
  
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  Citation: Davie, P. (2013). Cancer irroratus Say, 1817. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=158057 on 2013-05-23
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