 Carcinus maenas was first given a binomial name , Cancer maenas , by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae . An earlier description was published by Georg Eberhard Rumphius in his 1705 work De Amboinsche Rariteitkamer , calling the species Cancer marinus sulcatus , but this predates the starting point for zoological nomenclature . A number of later synonyms have also been published : 
