Pseudocarcinus mercenaria Say 1818 (crab)
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Malacostraca - Decapoda - Menippidae
Alternative combination: Cancer mercenaria
Belongs to Pseudocarcinus according to F. S. Holmes 1860
See also Luque et al. 2017, Rathbun 1935, Schweitzer 2005, Schweitzer et al. 2010 and Schweitzer et al. 2020
Sister taxon: Pseudocarcinus gigas
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Pseudocarcinus mercenaria in the database
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