Metacarcinus
Metacarcinus is a genus of crabs formerly included in the genus Cancer. It includes nine exclusively fossil species and five extant species, of which four are also known from the fossil record.W CalCOFI holds 15 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1984 and 2014.R
- 15
- observations
- 526
- records
- 1984–2014
- years
- 1
- datasets
Observed in nothing keyed to it directly
Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 1 taxon, in the fold below.
Ways inExplorerdb-queryRPythonThis page as JSON
Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:439213")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:439213'").df()Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.21, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.
How big is it not on record
Not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).
Under it 1 taxon
- sp Metacarcinus magister Dungeness crab526
Lineage 16 ranks · Biota to Cancrinae
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Cancer bellianus · source
- Photo · Derek K. Miller · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Metacarcinus” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1352137967
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF
The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.
Cite the release, v2026.10.21
Cite the release, v2026.10.21; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗