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Romaleon
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- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassMalacostraca
- OrderDecapoda
- FamilyCancridae
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Romaleon is a genus of marine crabs formerly considered in the genus Cancer.
==Species== The genus, as currently circumscribed, contains seven species: {| class="wikitable" |- ! Image !! Scientific name !! Distribution |- |120px ||Romaleon antennarium Stimpson, 1856 Pacific, brown or California rock crab||North America. |- | ||Romaleon branneri Rathbun, 1926 Furrowed rock crab||Granite Cove, Port Althorp, Alaska, to Santa Catalina Islands, California |- | ||Romaleon gibbosulum De Haan, 1833||Japan to North China and Korea |- | ||Romaleon jordani Rathbun, 1900 Hairy Rock Crab ||Pacific coast |- | ||Romaleon luzonense Sakai 1983||Philippines, Sunda Strait |- | ||Romaleon nadaense Sakai, 1969||South China Sea |- | ||Romaleon polyodon Poeppig, 1836||Chile and Peru |- |} ==References==