Eriphia
| Eriphia | |
|---|---|
| Eriphia verrucosa | |
| Scientific classification | |
| 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
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
- ^ a b c d "Eriphia Latreille, 1817". DecaNet. World Register of Marine Species. 2025. Retrieved 17 December 2025.
- ^ "Eriphia Latreille, 1817". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 17 December 2025.
- ^ 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. Supplement 17: 1–286. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-06. Retrieved 2025-12-17.
- ^ a b Koh, S. K. & Ng, Peter K. L. (2008). "A revision of the shore crabs of the genus Eriphia (Crustacea: Brachyura: Eriphiidae)" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 56 (2): 327–355.
- ^ "Eriphia gonagra (Fabricius, 1781)". DecaNet. World Register of Marine Species. 2025. Retrieved 17 December 2025.
- ^ "Eriphia cocchii Ristori, 1886 †". DecaNet. World Register of Marine Species. 2025. Retrieved 17 December 2025.