Eriphia
Encyclopedia
Eriphia is a genus
of crab
s, including the following species:
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of crab
Crab
True crabs are decapod crustaceans of the infraorder Brachyura, which typically have a very short projecting "tail" , or where the reduced abdomen is entirely hidden under the thorax...
s, including the following species:
- Eriphia gonagra (Fabricius, 1781)
- Eriphia granulosa A. Milne-Edwards, 1880
- Eriphia scabricula Dana, 1852
- Eriphia sebana (Shaw & Nodder, 1803)
- Eriphia squamata Stimpson, 1860
- Eriphia smithii MacLeay, 1838
- Eriphia verrucosaEriphia verrucosaEriphia verrucosa, sometimes called the warty crab or yellow crab, is a species of crab found in the Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea and eastern Atlantic Ocean from Brittany to Mauritania and the Azores. Individual crabs have been caught as far north as Cornwall...
(Forskål, 1775)