Eriphia

Eriphia
Eriphia verrucosa
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Suborder:	Pleocyemata
Infraorder:	Brachyura
Family:	Eriphiidae
Genus:	Eriphia Latreille, 1817 [1]
Type species
Cancer spinifrons Herbst, 1785 [2]

Eriphia is a genus of marine crustaceans in the family Eriphiidae.

Species

The genus contains the following species:[2]

Image	Scientific name	Distribution
	Eriphia gonagra (Fabricius, 1781)[3]	Western Atlantic Ocean
	Eriphia granulosa A. Milne-Edwards, 1880	the western Atlantic
	Eriphia scabricula Dana, 1852	Indo-Pacific.
	Eriphia sebana (Shaw & Nodder, 1803)	Indo-Pacific: north from Japan, China, Taiwan to southeast Asia, west to Australia, Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands to India, Oman and east Africa.
	Eriphia squamata Stimpson, 1860	eastern Pacific
	Eriphia smithii MacLeay, 1838	Indo-Pacific.
	Eriphia verrucosa (Forskål, 1775)	Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea and eastern Atlantic Ocean from Brittany to Mauritania and the Azores

References

1. "Eriphia Latreille, 1817". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved February 27, 2011.
2. Peter K. L. Ng; Danièle Guinot & Peter J. F. Davie (2008). "Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 17: 1–286. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-06.
3. Davie, P. (2012). "Eriphia gonagra (Fabricius, 1781)". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2012-12-25.