Editing Cancer pagurus (section)

=== Diseases ===
Compared to other commercially important crab species, relatively little is known about diseases of ''C. pagurus''.<ref name="Stentiford">{{cite journal |author=Grant D. Stentiford |year=2008 |title=Diseases of the European edible crab (''Cancer pagurus''): a review |journal=[[ICES Journal of Marine Science]] |volume=65 |issue=9 |pages=1578–1592 |doi=10.1093/icesjms/fsn134|doi-access=free }}</ref> Its parasites include [[virus]]es, such as the [[white spot syndrome]] virus, various [[bacteria]] that cause dark [[lesion]]s on the [[exoskeleton]], and ''[[Hematodinium]]''-like [[dinoflagellate]]s that cause "pink crab disease".<ref name="Stentiford"/> Other microscopic [[pathogen]]s include [[fungi]], [[microsporidia]]ns, [[paramyxea]]ns, and [[ciliate]]s. ''C. pagurus'' is also targeted by [[animal|metazoan]] parasites, including [[Trematoda|trematodes]] and parasitic [[barnacle]]s.<ref name="Stentiford"/> A number of [[Sessility (zoology)|sessile]] animals occasionally settle as [[epibiont]]s on the exoskeleton of ''C. pagurus'', including barnacles, [[sea anemone]]s, [[Serpulidae|serpulid]] [[polychaete]]s such as ''[[Janua pagenstecheri]]'', [[bryozoa]]ns, and [[Anomia (bivalve)|saddle oysters]].<ref name="Stentiford"/>