Glebocarcinus

Life-forms

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: Glebocarcinus
Species: G. amphioetus – G. kashini – G. oregonensis
Name

Glebocarcinus Nations, 1975
References

Nations, J. D. (1975). The genus Cancer (Crustacea:Brachyura): systematics, biogeography and fossil record. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Oy Sci. Bull. 23:1-104.
Marin, I.N., Maiorova, A.S. & Korn, O.M. 2018. Cryptic diversity of the rocky crab genus Glebocarcinus Nations, 1975 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Cancridae): description of a new species from Russian coastal waters of the Sea of Japan based on morphology, DNA and distribution. Zootaxa 4415(3): 473–497. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4415.3.4 Paywall Reference page.

Glebocarcinus is a genus of crabs formerly included in the genus Cancer.
Species

The genus contains two species:[1]

Image	Scientific name	Distribution
	Glebocarcinus oregonensis (Dana, 1852)	Pacific coast of North America.
	Glebocarcinus amphioetus (Rathbun, 1898)	Pacific coast of North America

References

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.