Speocarcinus

{{Short description|Genus of crabs}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| fossil_range = {{fossil_range|Ypresian|Recent}}

| image = FMIB 43408 Speocarcinus caroliensis.jpeg

| image_caption = Speocarcinus caroliensis

| taxon = Speocarcinus

| authority = Stimpson, 1859

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Speocarcinus is a genus of crabs in the family Pseudorhombilidae, containing six extant species,{{cite journal |last1=Ng |first1=Peter K. L. |last2=Guinot |first2=Danièle |last3=Davie |first3=Peter J. F. |date=January 2008 |title=Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world |url=https://lkcnhm.nus.edu.sg/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/app/uploads/2017/04/s17rbz.pdf |url-status=live |journal=Raffles Bulletin of Zoology |volume=17 |pages=1–286 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606061453/http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s17/s17rbz.pdf |archive-date=2011-06-06 |access-date=2011-06-08 |via=the National University of Singapore}} one fossil species{{cite journal |journal = Raffles Bulletin of Zoology |year=2009 |volume = Suppl. 21 |pages=1–109 |title = A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans |author1=Sammy De Grave |author2=N. Dean Pentcheff |author3=Shane T. Ahyong |url=http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s21/s21rbz1-109.pdf |format=PDF|display-authors=etal}} from the Late Miocene,{{cite journal |author=Annette B. Tucker |author2=Rodney M. Feldmann |author3=Charles L. Powell II |name-list-style=amp |year=1994 |title=Speocarcinus berglundi n. sp. (Decapoda: Brachyura), a new crab from the Imperial Formation (Late Miocene–Late Pliocene) of Southern California |journal=Journal of Paleontology |volume=68 |issue=4 |pages=800–807 |jstor=1306148}} one fossil species from the Eocene (Lutetian){{cite book |author1=Claudio Beschin |author2=Antonio De Angeli |author3=Andrea Checchi |author4=Giannino Zarantonello |year=2012 |title=Crostacei del giacimento eocenico di Grola presso Spagnago di Cornedo Vicentino (Vicenza, Italia Settentrionale) (Decapoda, Stomapoda, Isopoda) |publisher=Museo di Archeologia e Scienze Naturali “G. Zannato”, Montecchio Maggiore, Vicenza |pages=1–100 |isbn=978-88-900625-2-0 |url=http://decapoda.nhm.org/pdfs/38771/38771.pdf }} and one fossil species from the Early Eocene (Ypresian):{{Cite journal|author1=Claudio Beschin |author2=Alessandra Busulini |author3=Giuliano Tessier |author4=Roberto Zorzin |year=2016 |title=I crostacei associati a coralli nell’Eocene inferiore dell’area di Bolca (Verona e Vicenza, Italia nordorientale) |journal=Memorie del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona - 2. serie. Sezione Scienze della Terra |volume=9 |pages=1–189 |url=http://www.museostorianaturaleverona.it/media/_Musei/_StoriaNaturale/_Allegati/Biblioteca/Memorie%202.%20serie/Memorie%20B/I_Crostacei_associati_a_coralli_B09_completo.pdf |isbn=978-88-89230-29-9 }}

{{Linked species list

| Speocarcinus carolinensis | Stimpson, 1859

| Speocarcinus granulimanus | Rathbun, 1894

| Speocarcinus lobatus | Guinot, 1969

| Speocarcinus meloi | D'Incao & Gomes da Silva, 1992

| Speocarcinus monotuberculatus | Falder & Rabalais, 1986

| Speocarcinus spinicarpus | Guinot, 1969

| † Speocarcinus berglundi | Tucker et al., 1994

| † Speocarcinus tuberculatus | (Beschin, De Angeli, Checchi & Zarantonello, 2005); originally described as a species of Paraxanthosia, transferred to the genus Speocarcinus by Beschin et al. (2012)

| † Speocarcinus latus | Beschin et al., 2016

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