Metacarcinus

Metacarcinus
Metacarcinus
Temporal range: Oligocene–Recent
Metacarcinus gracilis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Infraorder: Brachyura
Family: Cancridae
Genus: Metacarcinus
A. Milne-Edwards, 1862
Type species
Cancer magister
Dana, 1852

Metacarcinus is a genus of crabs formerly included in the genus Cancer.[1] It includes nine exclusively fossil species and five extant species, of which four are also known from the fossil record.[2]

Included species:[3]

  • Metacarcinus anthonyi (Pliocene to Recent)
  • † Metacarcinus danai (Miocene, California)
  • † Metacarcinus davidi (Miocene to Pliocene, California)
  • Metacarcinus edwardsii
  • † Metacarcinus goederti (Oligocene, Alaska)
  • Metacarcinus gracilis (Pliocene to Recent)
  • Metacarcinus granti
  • † Metacarcinus izumoensis (Miocene, Japan)
  • † Metacarcinus jenniferae (Middle Pliocene, California)
  • Metacarcinus magister (Pliocene to Recent)
  • † Metacarcinus minutoserratus (Pliocene, Japan)
  • Metacarcinus novaezelandiae
  • † Metacarcinus starri (Early Oligocene, Washington)

References

  1. ^ P. K. L. Ng, D. Guinot & P. J. F. Davie (2008). "Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world". Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 17: 1–286. http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s17/s17rbz.pdf. 
  2. ^ Sammy De Grave, N. Dean Pentcheff, Shane T. Ahyong et al. (2009). "A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology Suppl. 21: 1–109. http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s21/s21rbz1-109.pdf. 
  3. ^ Carrie E. Schweitzer & Rodney M. Feldmann (2000). "Re-evaluation of the Cancridae Latreille, 1802 (Decapoda: Brachyura) including three new genera and three new species". Contributions to Zoology 69 (4): 223–250. http://dpc.uba.uva.nl/ctz/vol69/nr04/art02.  Also available as PDF.

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