Eriphia

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Eriphia
Eriphia verrucosa
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Brachyura
Family: Eriphiidae
Genus: Eriphia
Latreille, 1817[1][2]
Type species
Cancer spinifrons

Eriphia is a genus of marine crabs in the family Eriphiidae.[1] These crabs are common in most temperate and tropical seas.[4]

Species

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The genus contains the following eight extant species:[1][3]

Image Scientific name Distribution
Eriphia ferox Koh & Ng, 2008[4] northwestern Pacific
Eriphia gonagra (Fabricius, 1781)[5] Western Atlantic Ocean
Eriphia granulosa A. Milne-Edwards, 1880 the western Atlantic
Eriphia scabricula Dana, 1852 Indo-Pacific.
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
Eriphia smithii MacLeay, 1838 Indo-Pacific
Eriphia verrucosa (Forskål, 1775) Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea and eastern Atlantic Ocean from Brittany to Mauritania and the Azores

There is also one fossil species, †Eriphia cocchii Ristori, 1886.[6]

References

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