🦋 Family

Inachidae

4 species · Animals

Animalia › Arthropoda › Malacostraca › Decapoda › Inachidae

Achaeopsis spinulosa, the hotlips spider crab, is a small endemic South African crab that decorates its body for camouflage.

Achaeus japonicus, the orang-utan crab, is a small Indo-Pacific decorator crab often associated with bubble coral.

Inachus phalangium is a commensal crab that associates with snakelock anemones, found in the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean.

Macropodia rostrata is a small European and West African decorator spider crab with specific reproductive traits.

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Ocypodidae 39 species Diogenidae 32 species Palaemonidae 30 species Cambaridae 24 species Portunidae 24 species Varunidae 18 species Palinuridae 17 species Paguridae 15 species

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