Carcinus Leach, 1814

kingdom Animalia > phylum Arthropoda > subphylum Crustacea > superclass Multicrustacea > class Malacostraca > subclass Eumalacostraca > superorder Eucarida > order Decapoda > suborder Pleocyemata > infraorder Brachyura > section Eubrachyura > subsection Heterotremata > superfamily Portunoidea > family Carcinidae > subfamily Carcininae > genus Carcinus

RankGenus
Statusaccepted
Aphia IDurn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:106922
NCBI ID6758
Environments marine, brackish, freshwater, terrestrial

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Child taxa

Species Carcinus aestuarii
Species Carcinus maenas
Species Carcinus granulatus junior subjective synonym
Species Carcinus moenas misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling
Species Carcinus mediterraneus junior subjective synonym
Species Carcinus minor
Species Carcinus lőrentheyi superseded combination

Statistics

Occurrence records 113,903
Species level 113,437
Absence records 4,215
Species 2
Taxa 3
Datasets 259
Time range 1776 - 2024

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records 233
Not marine 0
Marine unsure 0
No coordinates 233
Zero coordinates 0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure 0
No accepted name available 0

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 101,283 294
decimalLatitude 74 159
decimalLongitude 74 159
eventDate 627 0
maximumDepthInMeters 105,744 0
minimumDepthInMeters 105,249 0
occurrenceStatus 2,382 0
scientificNameID 65 199

Spatial issues

Records on land 7,178
More than 20 km from shore 296
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth 338

Distribution

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Environmental conditions

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