| LC control no. | sh 95000384 |
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| LC classification | QL444.M33 |
| Topical heading | Cancer (Crustacea) |
| Variant(s) | Cancer crabs |
| See also | Cancridae |
| Found in | Work cat.: Berglund, R.E. A new species of Cancer (Decapoda: Brachyura) from the Miocene Astoria Formation in Washington, c1992. Syn. liv. org.: v. 2, p. 322 (Cancridae. "This is a family of cancroid crabs consisting of 1 genus (Cancer) and approximately 22 species.") Web. 3. Nations, J.D. The genus Cancer (Crustacea: Brachyura), 1975. Hart, J.F.L. Crabs and their relatives in British Columbia, 1982: p. 11 ("Cancer originally was a general name for crabs, but now, scientifically, it refers only to one genus of crabs.") p. 206 (genus Cancer, family Cancridae) Barnes, R.D. Invertebrate zoology, 1987: p. 605 ("On the west coast of the United States and in Europe, species of Cancer, a nonswimming crab, are used as food and are caught by trapping. Cancer magister, the dungeness or market crab, is the most important species off the coast of California.") |
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