Gulf squareback crab

Speocarcinus lobatus

Classification

Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Family: Pseudorhombilidae

Speocarcinus is a genus of crabs in the family Pseudorhombilidae, containing six extant species, one fossil species from the Late Miocene, one fossil species from the Eocene (Lutetian) and one fossil species from the Early Eocene (Ypresian): Speocarcinus carolinensis Stimpson, 1859 Speocarcinus granulimanus Rathbun, 1894 Speocarcinus lobatus Guinot, 1969 Speocarcinus meloi D'Incao & Gomes da Silva, 1992 Speocarcinus monotuberculatus Falder & Rabalais, 1986 Speocarcinus spinicarpus Guinot, 1969 †Speocarcinus berglundi Tucker et al. , 1994 †Speocarcinus tuberculatus (Beschin, De Angeli, Checchi…

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

United States of America · 1

Sources and credits

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Gulf squareback crab

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