Eriocheir

Taxobox
name = Chinese mitten crab

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image_width = 240px
image_caption = "Eriocheir sinensis"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
subphylum = Crustacea
classis = Malacostraca
subclassis = Eumalacostraca
superordo = Eucarida
ordo = Decapoda
subordo = Pleocyemata
infraordo = Brachyura
zoosectio = Eubrachyura
zoosubsectio = Thoracotremata
superfamilia = Grapsoidea
familia = Varunidae
genus = "Eriocheir"
genus_authority = De Haan, 1835
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = "Eriocheir formosa" "Eriocheir japonicus" "Eriocheir sinensis"

"Eriocheir" is a genus of crabs, including the Chinese Mitten Crab, "E. sinensis". Formerly in the family Grapsidae, it is now placed in the Varunidae.