Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Eucarida > Order Decapoda > Suborder Pleocyemata > Infraorder Brachyura > Section Eubrachyura > Subsection 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

*Eriocheir*	De Haan, 1835	accepted 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 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.

German: Chinesische wollhandkrabbe; Wollhandkrabbe sources: Unterwasser-Welt Ostsee

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

Genbank

External Links

Link Marine Life Information Network - UK
Link To GBIF

Citation

Davie, P.; Türkay, M. (2012). Eriocheir sinensis H. Milne Edwards, 1853. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2012) 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