WoRMS taxon details
Macrocheiridae Dana, 1851
1580708 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1580708)
accepted
Family
Macrocheira De Haan, 1839 (type by original designation)
Macrocheirinae Dana, 1851 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
Dana, J. D. (1851). On the classification of the maioid Crustacea or Oxyrhyncha. <em>The American Journal of Science and Arts, Second Series.</em> 11(33): 425–434. [details] 
DecaNet eds. (2025). DecaNet. Macrocheiridae Dana, 1851. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1580708 on 2025-04-18
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Nomenclature
original description
Dana, J. D. (1851). On the classification of the maioid Crustacea or Oxyrhyncha. <em>The American Journal of Science and Arts, Second Series.</em> 11(33): 425–434. [details]
original description (of Macrocheirinae Dana, 1851) Dana, J. D. (1851). On the classification of the maioid Crustacea or Oxyrhyncha. <em>The American Journal of Science and Arts, Second Series.</em> 11(33): 425–434. [details]
original description (of Macrocheirinae Dana, 1851) Dana, J. D. (1851). On the classification of the maioid Crustacea or Oxyrhyncha. <em>The American Journal of Science and Arts, Second Series.</em> 11(33): 425–434. [details]
Taxonomy
status source
Guinot, D.; Davie, P. J. F.; Tsang, L. M.; Ng, P. K. L. (2022). Formal re-establishment of Macrocheiridae Dana, 1851 (Decapoda: Brachyura: Majoidea) for the giant spider crab <i>Macrocheira kaempferi</i> (Temminck, 1836) based on a reappraisal of morphological and genetic characters. <em>Journal of Crustacean Biology.</em> 42(2): e1-24., available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/jcbiol/ruac022 [details] Available for editors 
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