Family Cancerides Latreille 1802 (crab)
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Cancerides
Alternative spelling: Cancridea
Full reference: P. A. Latreille. 1802. Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière des Crustacés et des Insectes. 3:1-467
Parent taxon: Cancroidea according to C. E. Schweitzer and R. M. Feldmann 2002
See also De Angeli and Ceccon 2017, Feldmann and Fordyce 1996, Feldmann and Keys 1992, Latreille 1802, Luque et al. 2017, Rathbun 1926, Schweitzer and Feldmann 2000, Schweitzer et al. 2004, Schweitzer et al. 2006, Schweitzer et al. 2010 and Schweitzer and Feldmann 2019
Sister taxa: Atelecyclidae, Cancridae, Eriphidae, Telphusidae
Subtaxa: none
Type: Cancer
Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Cancerides in the database