CANCRIDAE Latreille, 1802

Muñoz, Isabel, García-Isarch, Eva & Cuesta, Jose A., 2021, Annotated and updated checklist of marine crabs (Decapoda: Brachyura) of Mozambique supported by morphological and molecular data from shelf and slope species of the “ MOZAMBIQUE ” surveys, Zootaxa 5056 (1), pp. 1-67 : 22

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scientific name	CANCRIDAE Latreille, 1802
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Family CANCRIDAE Latreille, 1802

According to Davie et al. (2015a) this family includes six genera and 33 species. Only the genus Platepistoma Rathbun has been recorded in Mozambican waters.

Davie, P. J. F., Guinot, D. & Ng, P. K. L. (2015 a) Systematics and classification of Brachyura. In: Castro, P., Davie, P. J. F., Guinot, D., Schram, F. & Von Vaupel Klein, J. C. (Eds.), Treatise on Zoology - Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology. The Crustacea, 9 C (I), Decapoda: Brachyura. Part 2. Brill, Leiden and Boston, pp. 1049 - 1130. https: // doi. org / 10.1163 / 9789004190832 _ 021

Latreille, P. A. (1802) Histoire Naturelle, generale et particuliere des Crustaces et des Insectes. Ouvrage faisant suite aux oeuvres de Leclerc de Buffon, et partie du Cours complet d'Histoire naturelle redige par C. S. Sonnini, membre de plusieurs Societes savants. Familles naturelles des genres. Vol. 3. Dufart, Paris, 468 pp.