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Genus of crabs From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Liocarcinus is a genus of crabs, which includes the flying crab, the vernal crab and several other swimming crabs.
 | This article relies largely or entirely on a single source. (December 2015) |
| Liocarcinus | |
|---|---|
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| Liocarcinus marmoreus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Brachyura |
| Superfamily: | Portunoidea |
| Family: | Polybiidae |
| Genus: | Liocarcinus Stimpson, 1858 |
| Type species | |
| Portunus holsatus Fabricius, 1798 | |
It includes 12 species :[1]
| Image | Scientific name | Common name | Distribution |
|---|---|---|---|
| Liocarcinus bolivari (Zariquiey Alvarez, 1948) | eastern Mediterranean | ||
 | Liocarcinus corrugatus (Pennant, 1777) | wrinkled swimming crab | Angola to the British Isles and the Mediterranean, and Japan to Australia and New Zealand |
 | Liocarcinus depurator (Linnaeus, 1758) | blue-leg swimming crab, harbour crab, sandy swimming crab | Northeast Atlantic and the Mediterranean |
 | Liocarcinus holsatus (Fabricius, 1798) | flying crab | North Sea, Irish Sea and English Channel. |
| Liocarcinus maculatus (Risso, 1827) | Mediterranean Sea. | ||
| Liocarcinus marmoreus (Leach, 1814) | marbled swimming crab | North Sea |
 | Liocarcinus navigator (Herbst, 1794) | Northeast Atlantic and the Mediterranean | |
 | Liocarcinus pusillus (Leach, 1815) | dwarf swimming crab | Northeast Atlantic |
| Liocarcinus rondeletii (Risso, 1816) | |||
| Liocarcinus subcorrugatus (A. Milne-Edwards, 1861) | |||
 | Liocarcinus vernalis (Risso, 1816) | vernal crab | Western Central Pacific, Northeast Atlantic and the Mediterranean |
| Liocarcinus zariquieyi Gordon, 1968 | Mediterranean Sea | ||
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