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Rock Crabs
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Rock Crabs

Cancridae

Cancridae is a family of crabs. It comprises six extant genera, and eleven exclusively fossil genera, in two subfamilies:

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6 branches of this family, most-observed first

Edible Crabs

genusCancer

Metacarcinus

genusMetacarcinus

Romaleon

genusRomaleon

Glebocarcinus

genusGlebocarcinus

Anatolikos

genusAnatolikos

Platepistoma

genusPlatepistoma

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Where it lives

Recorded sightings

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 47828.