WoRMS taxon details
Cancer maenas Linnaeus, 1758
AphiaID: 423909
AphiaID: 423909
| 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 |  unaccepted (basionym) | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Accepted name | Carcinus maenas (Linnaeus, 1758) | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Typetaxon of |
Carcinus Leach, 1814 | ||||||||||
| Parent | Cancer Linnaeus, 1758 | ||||||||||
| 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: 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] | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:423909 | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Davie, P. (2013). Cancer maenas Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=423909 on 2013-05-24 | |||||||||||
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