Eriphia is a genus of marine crustaceans in the family Eriphiidae.
| Eriphia | |
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| Eriphia verrucosa | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Brachyura |
| Section: | Eubrachyura |
| Subsection: | Heterotremata |
| Superfamily: | Eriphioidea |
| Family: | Eriphiidae |
| Genus: | Eriphia Latreille, 1817 [1] |
| Type species | |
| Cancer spinifrons | |
Species
editThe genus contains the following species:[2]
| Image | Scientific name | Distribution |
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| Eriphia gonagra (Fabricius, 1781)[3] | Western Atlantic Ocean | |
| Eriphia granulosa A. Milne-Edwards, 1880 | the western Atlantic | |
| Eriphia scabricula Dana, 1852 | Indo-Pacific. | |
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Eriphia sebana (Shaw & Nodder, 1803) | Indo-Pacific: north from Japan, China, Taiwan to southeast Asia, west to Australia, Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands to India, Oman and east Africa. |
| Eriphia squamata Stimpson, 1860 | eastern Pacific | |
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Eriphia smithii MacLeay, 1838 | Indo-Pacific. |
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Eriphia verrucosa (Forskål, 1775) | Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea and eastern Atlantic Ocean from Brittany to Mauritania and the Azores |
References
edit- ^ "Eriphia Latreille, 1817". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved February 27, 2011.
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ Davie, P. (2012). "Eriphia gonagra (Fabricius, 1781)". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2012-12-25.
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