Carcinus

See also: carcinus

Translingual

Carcinus maenas

Etymology

New Latin, from Ancient Greek καρκίνος (karkínos, “crab”)

Proper noun

Carcinus m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Portunidae – most notoriously, the highly invasive species Carcinus maenas, of European origin.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Protostomia – infrakingdom; Ecdysozoa – superphylum; Arthropoda – phylum; Crustacea – subphylum; Malacostraca – class; Eumalacostraca – subclass; Eucarida – superorder; Decapoda – order; Pleocyemata – suborder; Brachyura – infraorder; Eubrachyura – section; Heterotremata – subsection; Portunoidea – superfamily; Portunidae – family; Carcininae - subfamily

Hyponyms

• (genus): Carcinus maenas (green crab, shore crab) - type species; Carcinus aestuarii - other species

Derived terms

• Australocarcinus
• Calocarcinus
• Carcinoplax
• Bicarinocarcinus
• Cecidocarcinus
• Ceratocarcinus
• Chasmocarcinus
• Criocarcinus
• Cyphocarcinus
• Detocarcinus
• Dilocarcinus
• Eurycarcinus
• Fredilocarcinus
• Gecarcinus
• Glebocarcinus
• Halicarcinus
• Hapalocarcinus
• Liocarcinus
• Lissocarcinus
• Martinocarcinus
• Melocarcinus
• Moreirocarcinus
• Nectocarcinus
• Nematocarcinus
• Ommatocarcinus
• Opecarcinus
• Philippicarcinus
• Potamocarcinus
• Rhinocarcinus
• Sargassocarcinus
• Simocarcinus
• Speocarcinus
• Sphenocarcinus
• Sylviocarcinus
• Tetracarcinus
• Trachycarcinus
• Trizocarcinus
• Troglocarcinus
• Tumidocarcinus
• Tylocarcinus
• Xenocarcinus

• †Amydrocarcinus
• †Gemmacarcinus
• †Icriocarcinus
• †Kowaicarcinus
• †Metacarcinus
• †Magyarcarcinus
• †Neptocarcinus
• †Pterocarcinus

References

• Carcinus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Carcinus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Carcinus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Carcinus at World Register of Marine Species
• Carcinus at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
• Carcinus at National Center for Biotechnology Information
• Carcinus at Paleobiology Database

Latin

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkar.ki.nus/, [ˈkärkɪnʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkar.t͡ʃi.nus/, [ˈkärt͡ʃinus]

Proper noun

Carcinus m sg (genitive Carcinī); second declension

1. A small river in Bruttium

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Carcinus
genitive	Carcinī
dative	Carcinō
accusative	Carcinum
ablative	Carcinō
vocative	Carcine

References

• Carcinus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.