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Liocarcinus is a genus of crabs, which includes the flying crab, the vernal crab and several other swimming crabs.
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| Liocarcinus marmoreus | |
Scientific classification 
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| 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
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Species edit
It includes 12 species :[1]
| Image | Scientific name | Common Name | Distribution |
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| Liocarcinus bolivari (Zariquiey Alvarez, 1948) | eastern Mediterranean | ||
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Liocarcinus corrugatus (Pennant, 1777) | wrinkled swimming crab | Angola to the British Isles and the Mediterranean, and Japan to Australia and New Zealand |
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Liocarcinus depurator (Linnaeus, 1758) | blue-leg swimming crab, harbour crab, sandy swimming crab | Northeast Atlantic and the Mediterranean |
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Liocarcinus holsatus (Fabricius, 1798) | flying crab | North Sea, Irish Sea and English Channel. |
| Liocarcinus maculatus (Risso, 1827) | Mediterranean Sea. | ||
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Liocarcinus marmoreus (Leach, 1814) | marbled swimming crab | North Sea |
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Liocarcinus navigator (Herbst, 1794) | Northeast Atlantic and the Mediterranean | |
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Liocarcinus pusillus (Leach, 1815) | dwarf swimming crab | Northeast Atlantic |
| Liocarcinus rondeletii (Risso, 1816) | |||
| Liocarcinus subcorrugatus (A. Milne-Edwards, 1861) | |||
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Liocarcinus vernalis (Risso, 1816) | vernal crab | Western Central Pacific, Northeast Atlantic and the Mediterranean |
| Liocarcinus zariquieyi Gordon, 1968 | Mediterranean Sea |
Fossils edit
- †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 edit
- ^ 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.
External links edit
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