Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Eucarida > Order Decapoda > Suborder Pleocyemata > Infraorder Brachyura > Section Eubrachyura > Subsection Heterotremata > Superfamily Leucosioidea > Family Leucosiidae > Subfamily Ebaliinae > Genus Ilia

Ilia nucleus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Ilia*	Leach, 1817	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Cancer nucleus*	Linnaeus, 1758	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Albanian: gërthia arrë sources: Dhora, DH. 2008. Fjalor i emrave të kafshëve të Shqipërisë (Emri shkencor – Shqip – Anglisht) / Dictionary of animal names of Albania (Scientific names – Albanian – English). Camaj – Pipa. Shkodër, Albania. pp. 288.

Catalan: cranc rodó sources: Club d'immersió Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona

English: leucosian nut crab; Mediterranean nut crab; nut-crab sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.;Club d'immersió Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona

French: crabe en forme de noix sources: Club d'immersió Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona

German: Mittelmeer-Kugelkrabbe; Mittelmeer-Nusskrabbe sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

Spanish, Castillian: cangrejo guisante

Literature

basis of record	Türkay, M. (2001). Decapoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 284-292
additional source	Garassino, A.; Pasini, G.; De Angeli, A.; Charbonnier, S.; Famiani, F.; Baldanza, A.; Bizzarri, R. (2012). The decapod community from the Early Pliocene (Zanclean) of “La Serra” quarry (San Miniato, Pisa, Toscana, central Italy): sedimentology, systematics, and palaeoenvironmental implications. Annales de Paléontologie. 98(1): 1–61.

Genbank

Citation

DecaNet eds. (2025). DecaNet. Ilia nucleus (Linnaeus, 1758). Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:107303