Eriphia is a genus of marine crustaceans in the family Eriphiidae.

Eriphia
Eriphia verrucosa
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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
Herbst, 1785 [2]

Species

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The genus contains the following species:[2]

Image Scientific name Distribution
Eriphia gonagra (Fabricius, 1781)[3] 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

References

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  1. ^ "Eriphia Latreille, 1817". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved February 27, 2011.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Davie, P. (2012). "Eriphia gonagra (Fabricius, 1781)". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2012-12-25.