Species Profile
Cancer
True crab
KingdomAnimalia
PhylumArthropoda
ClassCrustacea
OrderUnknown
FamilyUnknown
Introduction
Marine, benthic crustacean found in shallow seas.
Active scavenger and predator with economic importance.
Size & Structure
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Medium-sized body
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Broad, dorsoventrally flattened body
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Usually reddish-brown in colour
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Strong chelae and short abdomen folded ventrally
Cancer — 3D Model
General Features
- Coelom
- Coelomate
- Body plan
- Tube within a tube body plan (Protostomous)
- Germ layer
- Triploblastic
- Metamerism
- Present
- Body symmetry
- Bilateral symmetry
- Fertilization
- Internal
- Digestion type
- Complete digestion
- Nervous system
- Paired ventral nerve cord
- Excretory organ
- Green glands
- Body temperature
- Poikilothermic (stenohaline)
- Circulatory type
- Open circulatory system
- Development type
- Indirect development
- Respiratory type
- Branchial respiration
- Mode of excretion
- Ammonotelism
- Circulation system
- Open
- Skeleton structure
- Exoskeleton
- Level of Organisation
- Organ system level
- Regulation of Osmosis
- Osmoregulator
Ecology
Acts as scavenger in marine ecosystem
Controls benthic invertebrate population
Part of marine food web
Economic Importance
Edible seafood
Commercial fishery importance
Used in ecological studies