Lithodidae Dromiidae Atelecyclidae Cancridae Pirimelidae Cheiragonidae Dorippidae Eriphiidae Epialtidae Inachidae Oregoniidae Pilumnidae Geryonidae Portunidae Potamidae Panopeidae Xanthidae Grapsidae Images Name list Publications Sites alex@equator.ru Whole checklist По-русски (in Russian) Porcellanidae Varunidae Camptandriidae Macrophthalmidae Pinnotheridae Hapalogastridae Plagusiidae Far East / North Pacific Black Sea Baltic Sea Freshwater crabs Arctic Ocean Designed and composed by Alex Alyakrinsky, 2011 Portunidae Carcinus maenas (Linnaeus, 1758) Baltic Sea Range. “Its native range is from Mauritania in northwestern Africa through Atlantic Europe to  northern Norway and Iceland. C. maenas has become established in South Africa, eastern  Australia, Tasmania, the Patagonian coast of South America, the Atlantic coast of North  America (from Virginia to Prince Edward Island) and the Pacific coast of North America.  [Gillespie, G.E. & Phillips, A.C. & Paltzat, D.L. & Therriault, T.W. 2007, p. 1].  Size of carapace. 50 x 69 mm, male. [Bouvier, 1940, p. 235].