Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Eucarida > Order Decapoda > Suborder Pleocyemata > Infraorder Brachyura > Kingdom Eubrachyura > Kingdom Thoracotremata > Superfamily Grapsoidea > Family Varunidae > Subfamily Varuninae > Genus Eriocheir

Eriocheir sinensis H. Milne Edwards, 1853

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

EriocheirDe Haan, 1835accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

 Bokmål (Norwegian): kinaullhåndskrabbe sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Danish: kinesiske uldhandskrabbe; uldhåndskrabbe sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Dutch: Chinese krab; Chinese kreeft; Chinese wolhandkrab; wolhandkrab; wolpootkrab sources: Adema, J.P.H.M. (1991). De krabben van Nederland en Belgie (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura) [The crabs of the Netherlands and Belgium (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura)]. Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum: Leiden, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-73239-02-8. 244 pp.
 English: Chinese freshwater edible crab; Chinese mitten crab; Shanghai hairy crab sources: Adema, J.P.H.M. (1991). De krabben van Nederland en Belgie (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura) [The crabs of the Netherlands and Belgium (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura)]. Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum: Leiden, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-73239-02-8. 244 pp.
 English-United States: Chinese Mitten Crab sources: Charles Hussey
 Finnish: villasaksirapu
 French: crabe chinois; crabe chinois à mitaines; crabe poilu de Shangai sources: Adema, J.P.H.M. (1991). De krabben van Nederland en Belgie (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura) [The crabs of the Netherlands and Belgium (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura)]. Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum: Leiden, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-73239-02-8. 244 pp.;Dewarumez, J.-M.; Gévaert, F.; Massé, C.; Foveau, A.; Desroy, N.; Grulois, D. (2011). Les espèces marines animales et végétales introduites dans le bassin Artois-Picardie . UMR CNRS 8187 LOG/Agence de l’Eau Artois-Picardie: Douai. 138 pp.
 German: Chinesische Wollhandkrabbe; Wollhandkrabbe sources: Unterwasser-Welt Ostsee
 Norwegian: kinaullhåndskrabbe sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Norwegian Bokmål: kinaullhåndskrabbe sources: Archs Mus.Hist.nat.7:146-148
 Norwegian Nynorsk: kinaullhandskrabbe sources: Archs Mus.Hist.nat.7:146-148
 Nynorsk (Norwegian): kinaullhandskrabbe sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Polish: krab wełnistoszczypcy sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Swedish: kinesisk ullhandskrabba

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

Felder, D. L., F. Álvarez, J. W. Goy, and R. Lemaitre. 2009. Decapoda (Crustacea) of the Gulf of Mexico, with Comments on the Amphionidacea, Pp. 1019–1104 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas

additional source

Adema, J.P.H.M. (1991). De krabben van Nederland en Belgie (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura) [The crabs of the Netherlands and Belgium (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura)]. Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum: Leiden, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-73239-02-8. 244 pp.

additional source

Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp.

additional source

Streftaris, N.; Zenetos, A.; Papathanassiou, E. (2005). Globalisation in marine ecosystems: the story of non-indigenous marine species across European seas. Oceanogr. Mar. Biol. Ann. Rev. 43: 419-453

additional source

Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013].

Genbank

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Taxonomy

WoRMS

External Links

Delivering Alien Invasive Species Inventories for Europe (DAISIE)
Marine Life Information Network - UK
USNM Invertebrate Zoology Decapod Collection
Global invasive species database - Eriocheir sinensis
European Network on Invasive Alien Species (NOBANIS) - Eriocheir sinensis
Biodiversity Heritage Library (47 publications)
Barcode of Life (37 barcodes)
GenBank (156615 nucleotides; 489 proteins)
GBIF
GBIF

Citation

Davie, P. (2014). Eriocheir sinensis H. Milne Edwards, 1853. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:107451

David M. Holdich. Eriocheir sinensis H. Milne Edwards, 1853. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=238453

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Occurrence

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Importance

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2010-02-25 by Dr Geoffrey Boxshall & by Peter Davie & by David M. Holdich

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