Carcinidae

Carcinidae is a family of crabs belonging to the order Decapoda.^[1] It has four subfamilies, including Pirimelinae which was previously treated as a family.^[2][3]

Carcinidae
Carcinus maenas
Pirimela denticulata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Suborder:	Pleocyemata
Infraorder:	Brachyura
Superfamily:	Portunoidea
Family:	Carcinidae MacLeay, 1838

Taxonomy

The family as currently circumscribed includes four subfamilies and eight genera, six with living members and two known only through fossils:^[1]

• Subfamily Carcininae MacLeay, 1838
  • Carcinus Leach, 1814
  • †Miopipus Müller, 1984
• Subfamily Parathranitiinae Spiridonov, 2020
  • Parathranites Miers, 1886
• Subfamily Pirimelinae Alcock, 1899
  • Pirimela Leach, 1816
  • Sirpus Gordon, 1953
• Subfamily Platyonichinae Dana, 1851
  • Portumnus Leach, 1814
  • Xaiva MacLeay, 1838

References

1. WoRMS. "Pirimelinae Alcock, 1899". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 22 December 2022.
2. De Grave, Sammy; Pentcheff, N. Dean; Ahyong, Shane T.; Chan, Tin-Yam; Crandall, Keith A.; Dworschak, Peter C.; Felder, Darryl L.; Feldmann, Rodney M.; Fransen, Charles H. J. M.; Goulding, Laura Y. D.; Lemaitre, Rafael; Low, Martyn E. Y.; Martin, Joel W.; Ng, Peter K. L.; Schweitzer, Carrie E.; Tan, S. H.; Tshudy, Dale; Wetzer, Regina (2009). "A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 21 Suppl.: 1–109.
3. "Pirimelidae". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 5 June 2021.

External links

• Media related to Carcinidae at Wikimedia Commons
• Data related to Carcinidae at Wikispecies