Eriocheir

Eriocheir is a genus of crabs, including the Chinese mitten crab, E. sinensis.[1] Formerly in the family Grapsidae, it is now placed in the Varunidae.

Eriocheir
Eriocheir sinensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Subphylum:
Crustacea
Order:
Decapoda
Infraorder:
Brachyura
Superfamily:
Grapsoidea
Family:
Varunidae
Genus:
Eriocheir

De Haan, 1835
Species [1]
  • Eriocheir hepuensis Dai, 1991
  • Eriocheir japonica (De Haan, 1835)
  • Eriocheir sinensis H. Milne-Edwards, 1853
  • Eriocheir ogasawaraensis Komai in Komai, Yamasaki, Kobayashi, Yamamoya & Watanabe, 2006

References
  1. Peter K. L. Ng, Danièle 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. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-06.
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