Liocarcinus vernalis

Taxobox
name = "Liocarcinus vernalis"

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image_width = 250px
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
subphylum = Crustacea
classis = Malacostraca
ordo = Decapoda
subordo = Pleocyemata
infraordo = Brachyura
familia = Portunidae
genus = "Liocarcinus"
species = "L. vernalis"
binomial = "Liocarcinus vernalis"
binomial_authority = (Risso, 1827)

"Liocarcinus vernalis", sometimes called the "vernal crab", is a small shallow-water crab found in the north-east Atlantic.

Commonly used as bait for Black Fish.