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Cancer fissus

Malacostraca - Decapoda - Cancridae

Taxonomy
Cancer fissus was named by Rathbun (1908). Its type specimen is USNM 165477, a carapace, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is USGS 4756, Henry Spring, which is in a Zanclean coastal siliciclastic in the Etchegoin Formation of California.

It was recombined as Cancer (Cancer) fissus by Nations (1975).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
C. bockhii

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1908Cancer fissus Rathbun p. 343 figs. Plate 49, fig. 1
1926Cancer fissus Rathbun p. 60
1975Cancer (Cancer) fissus Nations p. 48 figs. 20, 26, 40-1 to 40-5
2002Cancer fissus Schweitzer and Feldmann p. 961
2010Cancer fissus Schweitzer et al. p. 101

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
—Deuteropoda
—Mandibulata
—PancrustaceaZrzavý and Štys 1997
—Hymenostraca(Rolfe 1969)
superclassMulticrustaceaRegier et al. 2010
classMalacostraca()
subclassEumalacostracaGrobben 1892
RankNameAuthor
—CaridoidaHessler 1982
orderDecapoda
suborderPleocyemataBurkenroad 1963
—Reptantia(Boas)
—MeiuraSaint Laurent 1980
infraorderBrachyura()
—Eubrachyurade Saint Laurent 1980
—HeterotremataGuinot 1977
superfamilyCancroideaLatreille 1802
familyCancridae()
subfamilyCancrinaeLatreille 1802
genusCancer
speciesfissus

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Cancer fissus Rathbun 1908
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available