Gecarcinidae

Gecarcinidae, vulgo tantum cancri terrestres saepe appellatae, sunt familia verorum Brachyurorum quae pro vita terrestri accommodantur. Cancri terrestres, omnium aliorum cancrorum similes, series branchiarum habent. Accedit quod pars carapacis branchias tegens inflata est, vasis sanguinis praedita, organis quae oxygenium ex aere extrahunt, sicut vertebratorum pulmones. Adulti cancri terrestres, quamquam animalia terrestria, mare interdum visitant, ubi pariunt et earum larvae crescunt. Cancri terrestres sunt omnivora tropica, multum detrimentum plantarum aliquando efficientes. Unum plurimorum cancrorum terrestrium bracchium alio est maius.

Gecarcinus quadratus

Animalia — Arthropoda

Subphylum : Crustacea
Classis : Malacostraca
Ordo : Decapoda
Infraordo : Brachyura
Superfamilia : Grapsoidea
Familia : Gecarcinidae
MacLeay, 1838^[1]

Familia haec genera amplectitur^[1]:

Nexus interni

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Peter K. L. Ng, Danièle Guinot, et Peter J. F. Davie (2008), "Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world," Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 17:1–286. PDF.

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Ng, P., et D. Guinot. 2001. On the land crabs of the genus Discoplax A. Milne Edwards, 1867 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Gecarcinidae), with description of a new cavernicolous species from the Philippines. Raffles Bull. Zool. 49:311-338.
Türkay, M. 1970. Die Gercarcinidae Amerikas. Mit einem Anhang uber Ucides Rathbun (Crustacea: Decapoda). Senckenberg. Biol. 51:333-354.
Türkay, M. 1987. Landkrabben. Natur Mus. 117:143-150.

Vide "Gecarcinidas" apud Vicispecies.