Cancer (Crustacea)
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Name (Latin)
Cancer (Crustacea)
Other forms of name
Cancer crabs
See Also From tracing topical name
Cancridae
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Wikidata:
Q428243
Library of congress:
sh 95000384
Sources of Information
- Work cat.: Berglund, R.E. A new species of Cancer (Decapoda: Brachyura) from the Miocene Astoria Formation in Washington, c1992.
- Syn. liv. org.:v. 2, p. 322 (Cancridae. "This is a family of cancroid crabs consisting of 1 genus (Cancer) and approximately 22 species.")
- Web. 3.
- Nations, J.D. The genus Cancer (Crustacea: Brachyura), 1975.
- Hart, J.F.L. Crabs and their relatives in British Columbia, 1982:p. 11 ("Cancer originally was a general name for crabs, but now, scientifically, it refers only to one genus of crabs.") p. 206 (genus Cancer, family Cancridae)
- Barnes, R.D. Invertebrate zoology, 1987:p. 605 ("On the west coast of the United States and in Europe, species of Cancer, a nonswimming crab, are used as food and are caught by trapping. Cancer magister, the dungeness or market crab, is the most important species off the coast of California.")
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Wikipedia description:
Cancer is a genus of marine crabs in the family Cancridae. It includes eight extant species and three extinct species, including familiar crabs of the littoral zone, such as the European edible crab (Cancer pagurus), the Jonah crab (Cancer borealis) and the red rock crab (Cancer productus). It is thought to have evolved from related genera in the Pacific Ocean in the Miocene.
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