Eriocheir

Eriocheir
	Eriocheir sinensis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Suborder:	Pleocyemata
Infraorder:	Brachyura
Family:	Varunidae
Subfamily:	Varuninae
Genus:	Eriocheir; De Haan, 1835
Species
	Eriocheir hepuensis Dai, 1991; Eriocheir japonica (De Haan, 1835); Eriocheir sinensis H. Milne-Edwards, 1853; Eriocheir ogasawaraensis Komai in Komai, Yamasaki, Kobayashi, Yamamoya & Watanabe, 2006;

Eriocheir is a genus of crabs, including the Chinese mitten crab, E. sinensis.^[1]^[2] Formerly in the family Grapsidae, it is now placed in the Varunidae.

References

^ ^a ^b DecaNet (2023). "Eriocheir De Haan, 1835". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 28 August 2023.
^ ^a ^b Ng, Peter K. L.; 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. Retrieved 2023-08-28.

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