{{Short description|Genus of crabs}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Cancer antennarius.PNG | image_caption = California rock crab, ''Romaleon antennarium'' | image2 = Romaleon jordani Rathbun, 1900.jpg | image2_caption = ''Romaleon jordani'' female | taxon = Romaleon | authority = Gistl, 1848 | type_species = ''Romaleon gibbosulus'' <ref name="Schweitzer"/> | type_species_authority = Rathbun, 1898 }}
'''''Romaleon''''' is a genus of marine crabs formerly considered in the genus ''Cancer''.<ref name="Schweitzer">{{cite journal |author=Carrie E. Schweitzer |author2=Rodney M. Feldmann |name-list-style=amp |year=2000 |title=Re-evaluation of the Cancridae Latreille, 1802 (Decapoda: Brachyura) including three new genera and three new species |journal=Contributions to Zoology |volume=69 |issue=4 |pages=223–250 |doi=10.1163/18759866-06904002 |url=http://dpc.uba.uva.nl/ctz/vol69/nr04/art02|doi-access=free }} Also available as [http://decapoda.nhm.org/pdfs/10785/10785.pdf PDF].</ref>
==Species== The genus, as currently circumscribed, contains seven species:<ref name="Ng">{{cite journal |journal=Raffles Bulletin of Zoology |year=2008 |volume=17 |pages=1–286 |title=Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world |author=Peter K. L. Ng |author2=Danièle Guinot |author3=Peter J. F. Davie |name-list-style=amp |url=http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s17/s17rbz.pdf}}</ref> {| class="wikitable" |- ! Image !! Scientific name !! Distribution |- |120px ||''Romaleon antennarium'' <small>Stimpson, 1856</small> Pacific, brown or California rock crab||North America. |- | ||''Romaleon branneri'' <small>Rathbun, 1926</small> Furrowed rock crab||Granite Cove, Port Althorp, Alaska, to Santa Catalina Islands, California |- | ||''Romaleon gibbosulum'' <small>De Haan, 1833</small>||Japan to North China and Korea |- | ||''Romaleon jordani'' <small>Rathbun, 1900</small> Hairy Rock Crab ||Pacific coast |- | ||''Romaleon luzonense'' <small>Sakai 1983</small>||Philippines, Sunda Strait |- | ||''Romaleon nadaense'' <small>Sakai, 1969</small>||South China Sea |- | ||''Romaleon polyodon'' <small>Poeppig, 1836</small>||Chile and Peru |- |} ==References== {{Reflist}}
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Category:Cancroidea Category:Decapod genera
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