Romaleon

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: Cancroidea

Familia: Cancridae
Genus: Romaleon
Species: R. antennarium – R. branneri – R. gibbosulum – R. jordani – R. luzonense – R. nadaense – R. polyodon
Name

Romaleon Gistel, 1848
References

Gistel J., von (1848). Naturgeschichte des Thierreiches für höhere Schulen bearbeitet. Stuttgart, i-xvi + 1-210.

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

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

Image	Scientific name	Distribution
	Romaleon antennarium Stimpson, 1856 Pacific, brown or California rock crab	North America.
	Romaleon branneri Rathbun, 1926 Furrowed rock crab	Granite Cove, Port Althorp, Alaska, to Santa Catalina Islands, California
	Romaleon gibbosulum De Haan, 1833	Japan to North China and Korea
	Romaleon jordani Rathbun, 1900 Hairy Rock Crab	Pacific coast
	Romaleon luzonense Sakai 1983	Philippines, Sunda Strait
	Romaleon nadaense Sakai, 1969	South China Sea
	Romaleon polyodon Poeppig, 1836	Chile and Peru

References

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.
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.