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Pseudocarcinus
Sign in to savePseudocarcinus is a genus of crab that contains two species, an extant species Tasmanian giant crab (Pseudocarcinus gigas) and the fossil species Pseudocarcinus karlraubenheimeri from the Miocene of New Zealand.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassMalacostraca
- OrderDecapoda
- FamilyPseudocarcinidae
Habitatmarine
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 7
- With media
- 2
- Family
- Pseudocarcinidae
- Collections
- NHMUK, MZLU, WAM
- Recorded in
- Malaysia, Yemen, Australia
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Pseudocarcinus is a genus of crab that contains two species, an extant species Tasmanian giant crab (Pseudocarcinus gigas) and the fossil species Pseudocarcinus karlraubenheimeri from the Miocene of New Zealand.
==References==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pseudocarcinus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.