Pseudocarcinus mercenaria Say 1818 (crab)

Malacostraca - Decapoda - Oziidae

Alternative combination: Cancer mercenaria

Belongs to Pseudocarcinus according to F. S. Holmes 1860

See also Luque et al. 2017, Rathbun 1935, Schweitzer 2005 and Schweitzer et al. 2010

Sister taxon: Pseudocarcinus gigas

Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Pseudocarcinus mercenaria in the database

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