Species list, Checklist of Infraorder Brachyura (Crabs) for Halifax Harbour (Halifax, Halifax County, Nova Scotia, Canada)

Ants	Arachnids
Bees	Beetles
Booklice	Bugs
Bumblebees	Butterflies
Cicadas	Crane flies
Dragonflies	Earwigs
Flies	Isopods
Locusts	Mantises
Mayflies	Mosquitoes
Myriapods	Net-winged
Plant-parasitic	Scorpion flies
Termites	Wasps

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Checklist for Infraorder Brachyura Linnaeus, 1758 (Crabs)
and region Halifax Harbour (Halifax, Halifax County, Nova Scotia, Canada)

Class	Malacostraca Latreille, 1802 Higher Crustaceans, Malacostracans	16 21 27	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Subclass	Eumalacostraca Grobben, 1892	16 21 27	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Superorder	Eucarida Calman, 1904	3 4 5	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Order	Decapoda Latreille, 1802 Crabs, Crayfishes, Decapod, Decapods, Lobsters, Prawns	3 4 5	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Suborder	Pleocyemata Burkenroad, 1963	3 4 5	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Infraorder	Brachyura Linnaeus, 1758 Crabs, Short-tailed crabs, True crabs	2 3 3	Families Genera Species	Taxom

List of families for Halifax Harbour
2 Families width 3 Species

Cancridae (Latreille, 1802)	Edible crabs	1	Species	Taxom
Oregoniidae Garth, 1958		2	Species	Taxom

Genera for Halifax Harbour
3 Genera with 3 Species

Cancer Linnaeus, 1817	Cancer Crab	1	Species	Taxom
Chionoecetes Krøyer, 1788	Snow crab	1	Species	Taxom
Hyas Leach, 1815		1	Species	Taxom

Species list for Halifax Harbour
3 Species

Cancer irroratus (Say, 1817)	⇒ Cancer plebejus Poeppig, 1836
Chionoecetes opilio Fabricius, 1788	Atlantic snow crab
Hyas coarctatus Leach, 1815	Arctic lyre crab

Subnodes of Brachyura with occurrences in Halifax Harbour

Section

Eubrachyura
de Saint Laurent, 1980

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Links, sources and further information

Brachyura at artfakta.se
Brachyura at biodiversity.org.au
Brachyura at dyntaxa.se
Brachyura at gbif.org
Brachyura at itis.gov
Brachyura at marinespecies.org