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'''''Metacarcinus''''' is a genus of [[crab]]s formerly included in the genus ''[[Cancer (genus)|Cancer]]''.<ref name="Ng">{{cite journal |journal=[[Raffles Bulletin of Zoology]] |year=2008 |volume=17 |pages=1–286 |title=Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world |author=P. K. L. Ng, D. Guinot & P. J. F. Davie |url=http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s17/s17rbz.pdf}}</ref> It includes nine exclusively [[fossil]] species and five extant species, of which four are also known from the fossil record.<ref name="Grave">{{cite journal |journal = [[Raffles Bulletin of Zoology]] |year=2009 |volume = Suppl. 21 |pages=1–109 |title = A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans |author=Sammy De Grave, N. Dean Pentcheff, Shane T. Ahyong ''et al.'' |url=http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s21/s21rbz1-109.pdf |format=[[Portable Document Format|PDF]]}}</ref> |
'''''Metacarcinus''''' is a genus of [[crab]]s formerly included in the genus ''[[Cancer (genus)|Cancer]]''.<ref name="Ng">{{cite journal |journal=[[Raffles Bulletin of Zoology]] |year=2008 |volume=17 |pages=1–286 |title=Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world |author=P. K. L. Ng, D. Guinot & P. J. F. Davie |url=http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s17/s17rbz.pdf}}</ref> It includes nine exclusively [[fossil]] species and five extant species, of which four are also known from the fossil record.<ref name="Grave">{{cite journal |journal = [[Raffles Bulletin of Zoology]] |year=2009 |volume = Suppl. 21 |pages=1–109 |title = A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans |author=Sammy De Grave, N. Dean Pentcheff, Shane T. Ahyong ''et al.'' |url=http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s21/s21rbz1-109.pdf |format=[[Portable Document Format|PDF]]}}</ref> |
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Included species:<ref name="SandF2000">{{cite journal |author=Carrie E. Schweitzer & Rodney M. Feldmann |year=2000 |title=Re-evaluation of the Cancridae Latreille, 1802 (Decapoda: Brachyura) including three new genera and three new species |journal=[[Contributions to Zoology]] |volume=69 |issue=4 |pages=223–250 |url=http://dpc.uba.uva.nl/ctz/vol69/nr04/art02}} Also available as [http://decapoda.nhm.org/pdfs/10785/10785.pdf PDF].</ref> |
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*''[[Metacarcinus anthonyi]]'' (Pliocene to Recent) |
*''[[Metacarcinus anthonyi]]'' (Pliocene to Recent) |
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*† ''[[Metacarcinus danai]]'' (Miocene, California) |
*† ''[[Metacarcinus danai]]'' (Miocene, California) |
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| Genus: | Metacarcinus A. Milne-Edwards, 1862 |
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Metacarcinus is a genus of crabs formerly included in the genus Cancer.[1] It includes nine exclusively fossil species and five extant species, of which four are also known from the fossil record.[2]
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