🦋 Family

Carpiliidae

3 species · Animals

Animalia › Arthropoda › Malacostraca › Decapoda › Carpiliidae

Carpilius corallinus, the batwing coral crab, is the largest edible crab in the western Atlantic tropical area from Florida to Brazil.

Carpilius convexus, the marbled stone crab, is an Indo-Pacific crab species with poorly studied biology.

Carpilius maculatus is a large nocturnal xanthid crab recognizable by 11 red spots on its cream carapace, found across Indo-Pacific reefs.

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