Romaleon

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Romaleon
California rock crab, Romaleon antennarium
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Subphylum:
Crustacea
Class:
Malacostraca
Order:
Decapoda
Infraorder:
Brachyura
Family:
Cancridae
Genus:
Romaleon

Gistl, 1848
Type species
Romaleon gibbosulus [1]
Rathbun, 1898

Romaleon is a genus of marine crabs formerly considered in the genus Cancer.[1]

Species

The genus, as currently circumscribed, contains seven species:[2]

References

  1. ^ a b 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. Also available as PDF.
  2. ^ Peter K. L. Ng, Daniele Guinot & Peter J. F. Davie (2008). "Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 17: 1–286.


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