Liocarcinus vernalis | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Crustacea |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Order: | Decapoda |
Infraorder: | Brachyura |
Family: | Portunidae |
Genus: | Liocarcinus |
Species: | L. vernalis |
Binomial name | |
Liocarcinus vernalis (Risso, 1816) |
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External identifiers for Liocarcinus vernalis | |
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Encyclopedia of Life | 2950239 |
NCBI | 557236 |
WoRMS | 107394 |
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Liocarcinus vernalis, the grey swimming crab, is a small, shallow-water crab in the family Portunidae. L. vernalis was thought for a long time to be a predominantly Mediterranean species, but its known range was extended by a series of observations in the 1980s and 1990s. It ranges from West Africa to the southern North Sea.