Liocarcinus
Liocarcinus marmoreus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Brachyura
Superfamily: Portunoidea
Family: Polybiidae
Genus: Liocarcinus
Stimpson, 1858
Type species
Portunus holsatus
Fabricius, 1798

Liocarcinus is a genus of crabs, which includes the flying crab, the vernal crab and several other swimming crabs.

Species

It includes 12 species :[1]

ImageScientific nameCommon NameDistribution
Liocarcinus bolivari (Zariquiey Alvarez, 1948)eastern Mediterranean
Liocarcinus corrugatus (Pennant, 1777)wrinkled swimming crabAngola 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 crabNortheast Atlantic and the Mediterranean
Liocarcinus holsatus (Fabricius, 1798)flying crabNorth Sea, Irish Sea and English Channel.
Liocarcinus maculatus (Risso, 1827)Mediterranean Sea.
Liocarcinus marmoreus (Leach, 1814)marbled swimming crabNorth Sea
Liocarcinus navigator (Herbst, 1794)Northeast Atlantic and the Mediterranean
Liocarcinus pusillus (Leach, 1815)dwarf swimming crabNortheast Atlantic
Liocarcinus rondeletii (Risso, 1816)
Liocarcinus subcorrugatus (A. Milne-Edwards, 1861)
Liocarcinus vernalis (Risso, 1816)vernal crabWestern Central Pacific, Northeast Atlantic and the Mediterranean
Liocarcinus zariquieyi Gordon, 1968Mediterranean Sea

Fossils

  • †Liocarcinus atropatanus (Aslanova & Dschafarova, 1975)
  • †Liocarcinus kuehni (Bachmayer, 1953)
  • †Liocarcinus lancetidactylus (Smirnov, 1929)
  • †Liocarcinus oroszyi (Bachmayer, 1953)
  • †Liocarcinus praearcuatus Müller, 1996
  • †Liocarcinus rakosensis (Lőrenthey in Lőrenthey & Beurlen, 1929)


References

  1. Peter K. L. Ng; 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.


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