Cancer squinado

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Majoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Superclassis: Multicrustacea Classis: Malacostraca Subclassis: Eumalacostraca Superordo: Eucarida Ordo: Decapoda Subordo: Pleocyemata Infraordo: Brachyura Sectio: Eubrachyura Subsectio: Heterotremata Superfamilia: Majoidea

Familia: Majidae
Subfamilia: Majinae
Genus: Maja
Species: Cancer squinado

Name

Cancer squinado Herbst, 1788

Type locality: Croatia, Rovinj, 20-30 m.

Neotype: SMF. male ♂. 21.VIII.1989. SMF-4548. (neotype designated by Ng & Richer de Forges 2015: 119).

CURRENT STATUS Maja squinado

References

• Ng, P.K.L. & Richer de Forges, B. 2015. Revision of the spider crab genus Maja Lamarck, 1801 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Majoidea: Majidae), with descriptions of seven new genera and 17 new species from the Atlantic and Indo-West Pacific. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 63: 110–225. PDF. Reference page.