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| Liocarcinus marmoreus | |
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| Genus: | Liocarcinus Stimpson, 1858 |
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| Portunus holsatus Fabricius, 1798 | |
Liocarcinus is a genus of crabs, which includes the flying crab, the vernal crab and several other swimming crabs.
It includes 12 species : [1]
| Image | Scientific name | Common Name | Distribution |
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| Liocarcinus bolivari (Zariquiey Alvarez, 1948) | eastern Mediterranean | ||
 | Liocarcinus corrugatus (Pennant, 1777) | wrinkled swimming crab | Angola to the British Isles and the Mediterranean, and Japan to Australia and New Zealand |
 | Liocarcinus depurator (Linnaeus, 1758) | blue-leg swimming crab, harbour crab, sandy swimming crab | Northeast Atlantic and the Mediterranean |
 | Liocarcinus holsatus (Fabricius, 1798) | flying crab | North Sea, Irish Sea and English Channel. |
| Liocarcinus maculatus (Risso, 1827) | Mediterranean Sea. | ||
 | Liocarcinus marmoreus (Leach, 1814) | marbled swimming crab | North Sea |
 | Liocarcinus navigator (Herbst, 1794) | Northeast Atlantic and the Mediterranean | |
 | Liocarcinus pusillus (Leach, 1815) | dwarf swimming crab | Northeast Atlantic |
| Liocarcinus rondeletii (Risso, 1816) | |||
| Liocarcinus subcorrugatus (A. Milne-Edwards, 1861) | |||
 | Liocarcinus vernalis (Risso, 1816) | vernal crab | Western Central Pacific, Northeast Atlantic and the Mediterranean |
| Liocarcinus zariquieyi Gordon, 1968 | Mediterranean Sea | ||
Calappa is a genus of crabs known commonly as box crabs or shame-faced crabs. The name box crab comes from their distinctly bulky carapace, and the name shame-faced is from anthropomorphising the way the crab's chelae (claws) fold up and cover its face, as if it were hiding its face in shame.
Portunidae is a family of crabs which contains the swimming crabs.
The Ocypodidae are a family of semiterrestrial crabs that includes the ghost crabs and fiddler crabs. They are found on tropical and temperate shorelines around the world.
Majidae is a family of crabs, comprising around 200 marine species inside 52 genera, with a carapace that is longer than it is broad, and which forms a point at the front. The legs can be very long in some species, leading to the name "spider crab". The exoskeleton is covered with bristles to which the crab attaches algae and other items to act as camouflage.
Retroplumidae is a family of heterotrematan crabs, placed in their own (monotypic) superfamily, Retroplumoidea.
Liocarcinus vernalis, the grey swimming crab, is a small, shallow-water crab in the family Portunidae. L. vernalis was thought for a long time to be a predominantly Mediterranean species, but its known range was extended by a series of observations in the 1980s and 1990s. It ranges from West Africa to the southern North Sea.
Liocarcinus depurator, sometimes called the harbour crab or sandy swimming crab, is a species of crab found in the North Sea, Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea, and Black Sea. It grows up to 50 millimetres (2.0 in) in width and 40 mm (1.6 in) long, and can be distinguished from other crabs, such as the shore crab Carcinus maenas, by the curved rows of white spots on its carapace.
Corystidae is a family of crabs, in its own superfamily, Corystoidea. It includes what was once thought to be the oldest Eubrachyuran fossil, Hebertides jurassica, thought to be dating from the Bathonian ; the species was subsequently reinterpreted as being Cenozoic in age. Corystidae contains ten extant and five extinct species in eight genera:
Liocarcinus pusillus, common name dwarf swimming crab, is a species of crab in the Portunidae family.
Ciliopagurus is a genus of hermit crabs, of the family Diogenidae, which are sometimes referred to as the "left-handed hermit crabs", because in contrast to most other hermit crabs, the left chela (claw) is enlarged instead of the right. They are found in the Indo-Pacific region and in the eastern Atlantic Ocean.
Ciliopagurus substriatiformis was a species of hermit crab that existed during the Badenian stage.
The Galatheoidea are a superfamily of decapod crustaceans comprising the porcelain crabs and some squat lobsters. Squat lobsters within the three families of the superfamily Chirostyloidea are not closely related to the squat lobsters within the Galatheoidea. The fossil record of the superfamily extends back to the Middle Jurassic genus Palaeomunidopsis.
Leucosiidae is a family of crabs containing three subfamilies and a number of genera incertae sedis:
Phlyctenodes is a genus of crabs in the family Xanthidae, containing the following fossil species:
Mesoparapylocheles is an extinct hermit crab genus which existed during the Mesozoic in what is now Europe. It was described by René H.B. Fraaije, Adiël A. Klompmaker and Pedro Artal in 2012. The type species is Mesoparapylocheles michaeljacksoni from the Albian or Cenomanian of Spain; it was named after the singer Michael Jackson. Genus also includes two species from the Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) of Germany and additional two species from the Late Jurassic (Tithonian) of Austria.
Around 65 species of crab occur in the waters of the British Isles. All are marine, with the exception of the introduced Chinese mitten crab, Eriocheir sinensis, which occurs in fresh and brackish water. They range in size from the deep-water species Paromola cuvieri, which can reach a claw span of 1.2 metres, to the pea crab, which is only 4 mm (0.16 in) wide and lives inside mussel shells.
Goniodromites is an extinct genus of crabs. A new species, G. kubai, which existed during the Oxfordian stage of what is now Poland, was described by Natalia Starzyk, Ewa Krzemiska and Wiesław Krzemiski in 2012.
Liocarcinus zariquieyi is a species of crab that lives in the Mediterranean Sea. It is very similar to Liocarcinus pusillus, and was for a long time confused with that species.
Calappilia is an extinct genus of box crabs belonging to the family Calappidae. The type species of the genus is Calappilia verrucosa.
Randallia is a genus of true crabs in the family Leucosiidae. There are about 17 described species in Randallia.
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