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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Cancridae

rock crabs

WoRMS 106749ITIS 98670key worms:106749
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2026-08-05: itis_id 98670 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Cancer bellianus

Size · not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Photograph of Cancridae
Photo · Jon Sullivan · CC BY 4.0 · inat

Cancridae is a family of crabs. It comprises six extant genera, and ten exclusively fossil genera, in two subfamilies:…W CalCOFI holds 149 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1984 and 2014, as zoea, across 2 taxa under it.R

149
observations
836
records
310
sampling events
1984–2014
years
1
datasets
1
species under it
zoea
life stages

Observed in
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One row per dataset, one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses (dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet pill marks a name the authority does not accept.

Under it · 1 taxon

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Explorerdb-query
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Dungeness Crab Megalopae table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/cdfw_dungeness-crab.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:106749%22