Malacostraca - Decapoda - Cancridae
Full reference: C. Linnaeus. 1758. Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. Editio Decima 1:1-824
Parent taxon: Cancrinae according to C. E. Schweitzer and R. M. Feldmann 2019
See also Berglund and Goedert 1992, Berglund and Goedert 1996, Dana 1851, Fabricius 1775, Feldmann and Keys 1992, Geoffroy 1762, Glaessner 1960, Karasawa 1990, Karasawa 1993, Linnaeus 1758, Linnaeus 1761, Linnaeus 1767, Luque et al. 2017, Müller 1764, Müller 1776, Müller 1984, Rathbun 1926, Schaeffer 1766, Schweitzer and Feldmann 2000, Schweitzer and Feldmann 2002, Schweitzer et al. 2010, Scopoli 1763, Sepkoski 2002 and van Bakel et al. 2003
Sister taxa: Anatolikos, Anisospinos, Ceronnectes, Cyclocancer, Glebocarcinus, Metacarcinus, Microdium, Notocarcinus, Platepistoma, Romaleon, Santeecarcinus, Sarahcarcinus
Subtaxa: Cancer (Cancer) Cancer allisoni Cancer araneus Cancer bainbridgensis Cancer beaumonti Cancer bellianus Cancer borealis Cancer brewerii Cancer burtini Cancer carniolicus Cancer cassivelaunus Cancer chaneyi Cancer coosensis Cancer dorsipes Cancer durhami Cancer fissus Cancer fujinaensis Cancer gabbi Cancer garthi Cancer irroratus Cancer johngarthi Cancer maculatus Cancer marri Cancer meticurensis Cancer modestus Cancer nancei Cancer pagurus Cancer parvidens Cancer pelagicus Cancer porteri Cancer proavitus Cancer productus Cancer punctulatus Cancer raninus Cancer reversus Cancer rhomboides Cancer santosi Cancer solitarius Cancer spinosusdup Cancer styriacus Cancer tomowoi Cancer tomowoidup Cancer vancalsteri Cancer villabersiani Cancer whitfieldi Cancer yanceyi Cancer zahrae Cancer zameniscus
Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Canada (1: Nova Scotia collection), Chile (1), Japan (1), Mexico (2), Morocco (1), Spain (2), United States (50: California, Florida, Maine, Maryland, New Jersey, Oregon, Virginia)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of United States (1: California)
• Pliocene of Belgium (2), Jamaica (1), Japan (1), Mexico (2), United States (15: California)
• Miocene to Pliocene of United States (2: California, Virginia)
• Neogene of Belgium (1), Poland (1)
• Miocene of Argentina (1), Hungary (1), Japan (3), the Netherlands (1), Poland (1), Spain (1), United States (11: California, Maryland, Massachusetts, Oregon)
• Oligocene of United States (2: Washington)
• Eocene of Hungary (1), United States (3: California)
Total: 109 collections including 122 occurrences
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