Cancer (Crustacea)

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Information for Authority record

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.")