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Carcinus maenas
Taxonomy
Cancer maenas was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant.
It was recombined as Carcinus maenas by Garassino et al. (2004); it was misspelled as Carcinus maenus by Schweitzer et al. (2010), Schweitzer et al. (2021).
It was recombined as Carcinus maenas by Garassino et al. (2004); it was misspelled as Carcinus maenus by Schweitzer et al. (2010), Schweitzer et al. (2021).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1758 | Cancer maenas Linnaeus |
| 2004 | Carcinus maenas Garassino et al. p. 269 |
| 2010 | Carcinus maenus Schweitzer et al. p. 105 |
| 2021 | Carcinus maenus Schweitzer et al. p. 3 fig. 1.4a,b |
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Carcinus maenas Linnaeus 1758
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available