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Cancer araneus (great spider crab)
Taxonomy
Cancer araneus was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant. It is the type species of Hyas.
It was recombined as Hyas araneus by Rathbun (1935), Schweitzer et al. (2010), Schweitzer et al. (2020).
It was recombined as Hyas araneus by Rathbun (1935), Schweitzer et al. (2010), Schweitzer et al. (2020).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1758 | Cancer araneus Linnaeus |
| 1935 | Hyas araneus Rathbun p. 118 |
| 2010 | Hyas araneus Schweitzer et al. p. 97 |
| 2020 | Hyas araneus Schweitzer et al. p. 23 fig. 14.3a,b |
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Cancer araneus Linnaeus 1758 [great spider crab]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Aberhan 1992, Turnsek 1997, Fearon and Clapham 2023 | |||||
Collections
No collection or age range data are available