Eriocheir

Eriocheir
Eriocheir sinensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Suborder:	Pleocyemata
Infraorder:	Brachyura
Family:	Varunidae
Subfamily:	Varuninae
Genus:	Eriocheir De Haan, 1835
Species   [1] [2]
Eriocheir hepuensis Dai, 1991 Eriocheir japonica (De Haan, 1835) Eriocheir sinensis H. Milne-Edwards, 1853 Eriocheir ogasawaraensis Komai in Komai, Yamasaki, Kobayashi, Yamamoya & Watanabe, 2006

Eriocheir is a genus of crabs, including the Chinese mitten crab, E. sinensis. ^{[1] [2]} Formerly in the family Grapsidae, it is now placed in the Varunidae.

Comparison between Japanese (left) and Chinese (right) mitten crabs

References

1. DecaNet (2023). "Eriocheir De Haan, 1835". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species . Retrieved 28 August 2023.
2. Ng, Peter K. L.; Danièle Guinot & Peter J. F. Davie (2008). "Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology . 17: 1–286. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-06. Retrieved 2023-08-28.