Malacostraca - Decapoda - Cancridae

Alternative combination: Cancer (Metacarcinus) garthi

Full reference: J. D. Nations. 1975. The genus Cancer (Crustacea: Brachyura): systematics, biogeography and fossil record. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Science Bulletin 23:1-104

Belongs to Cancer according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2010

See also Nations 1975 and Schweitzer and Feldmann 2000

Sister taxa: 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 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 styriacus, Cancer tomowoi, Cancer vancalsteri, Cancer villabersiani, Cancer whitfieldi, Cancer yanceyi, Cancer zahrae, Cancer zameniscus

Type specimen: UCMP 10743, a claw. Its type locality is UCMP B-7880, Scotia Bluffs, which is in a Calabrian coastal sandstone in the Scotia Bluffs Sandstone Formation of California.

Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at UCMP B-7880, Scotia Bluffs

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