Liocarcinus

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Liocarcinus
Liocarcinus marmoreus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Crustacea
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Infraorder:	Brachyura
Family:	Portunidae
Subfamily:
Genus:	Liocarcinus Stimpson, 1858
Type species
Portunus holsatus Fabricius, 1798

Liocarcinus is a genus of crabs, which includes the flying crab, the vernal crab and several other swimming crabs.

Species[]

It includes 12 species :^[1]

Image	Scientific name	Common Name	Distribution
	(Zariquiey Alvarez, 1948)		eastern Mediterranean
	(Pennant, 1777)	wrinkled swimming crab	Angola to the British Isles and the Mediterranean, and Japan to Australia and New Zealand
	Liocarcinus depurator (Linnaeus, 1758)	blue-leg swimming crab, harbour crab, sandy swimming crab	Northeast Atlantic and the Mediterranean
	Liocarcinus holsatus (Fabricius, 1798)	flying crab	North Sea, Irish Sea and English Channel.
	(Risso, 1827)		Mediterranean Sea.
	Liocarcinus marmoreus (Leach, 1814)	marbled swimming crab	North Sea
	Liocarcinus navigator (Herbst, 1794)		Northeast Atlantic and the Mediterranean
	Liocarcinus pusillus (Leach, 1815)	dwarf swimming crab	Northeast Atlantic
	(Risso, 1816)
	(A. Milne-Edwards, 1861)
	Liocarcinus vernalis (Risso, 1816)	vernal crab	Western Central Pacific, Northeast Atlantic and the Mediterranean
	Liocarcinus zariquieyi Gordon, 1968		Mediterranean Sea

Fossils[]

• † (Aslanova & Dschafarova, 1975)
• † (Bachmayer, 1953)
• † (Smirnov, 1929)
• † (Bachmayer, 1953)
• † Müller, 1996
• † (Lőrenthey in Lőrenthey & Beurlen, 1929)

References[]

External links[]

• Media related to Liocarcinus at Wikimedia Commons

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