| Liocarcinus vernalis | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Crustacea |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Infraorder: | Brachyura |
| Family: | Portunidae |
| Genus: | Liocarcinus |
| Species: | L. vernalis |
| Binomial name | |
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Liocarcinus vernalis (Risso, 1816) |
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| External identifiers for Liocarcinus vernalis | |
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| Encyclopedia of Life | 2950239 |
| NCBI | 557236 |
| WoRMS | 107394 |
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Liocarcinus vernalis, the grey swimming crab, is a small, shallow-water crab in the family Portunidae. L. vernalis was thought for a long time to be a predominantly Mediterranean species, but its known range was extended by a series of observations in the 1980s and 1990s. It ranges from West Africa to the southern North Sea.