Liocarcinus

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
Subphylum: Crustacea
Superclassis: Multicrustacea
Classis: Malacostraca
Subclassis: Eumalacostraca
Superordo: Eucarida
Ordo: Decapoda
Subordo: Pleocyemata
Infraordo: Brachyura
Sectio: Eubrachyura
Subsectio: Heterotremata
Superfamilia: Portunoidea

Familia: Portunidae
Genus: Liocarcinus
Species: L. bolivari – L. corrugatus – L. depurator – L. holsatus – L. maculatus – L. marmoreus – L. navigator – L. pusillus – L. rondeletii – L. subcorrugatus – L. vernalis – L. zariquieyi
Name

Liocarcinus Stimpson, 1871
References

Liocarcinus – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).

Liocarcinus is a genus of crabs, which includes the flying crab, the vernal crab and several other swimming crabs.
Species

It includes 12 species :[1]

Image	Scientific name	Common Name	Distribution
	Liocarcinus bolivari (Zariquiey Alvarez, 1948)		eastern Mediterranean
	Liocarcinus corrugatus (Pennant, 1777)	wrinkled swimming crab	Angola to the British Isles and the Mediterranean, and Japan to Australia and New Zealand
	Liocarcinus depurator (Linnaeus, 1758)	blue-leg swimming crab, harbour crab, sandy swimming crab	Northeast Atlantic and the Mediterranean
	Liocarcinus holsatus (Fabricius, 1798)	flying crab	North Sea, Irish Sea and English Channel.
	Liocarcinus maculatus (Risso, 1827)		Mediterranean Sea.
	Liocarcinus marmoreus (Leach, 1814)	marbled swimming crab	North Sea
	Liocarcinus navigator (Herbst, 1794)		Northeast Atlantic and the Mediterranean
	Liocarcinus pusillus (Leach, 1815)	dwarf swimming crab	Northeast Atlantic
	Liocarcinus rondeletii (Risso, 1816)
	Liocarcinus subcorrugatus (A. Milne-Edwards, 1861)
	Liocarcinus vernalis (Risso, 1816)	vernal crab	Western Central Pacific, Northeast Atlantic and the Mediterranean
	Liocarcinus zariquieyi Gordon, 1968		Mediterranean Sea

Fossils

†Liocarcinus atropatanus (Aslanova & Dschafarova, 1975)
†Liocarcinus kuehni (Bachmayer, 1953)
†Liocarcinus lancetidactylus (Smirnov, 1929)
†Liocarcinus oroszyi (Bachmayer, 1953)
†Liocarcinus praearcuatus Müller, 1996
†Liocarcinus rakosensis (Lőrenthey in Lőrenthey & Beurlen, 1929)

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.