🦋 Family

Macrophthalmidae

3 species · Animals

Animalia › Arthropoda › Malacostraca › Decapoda › Macrophthalmidae

Macrophthalmus japonicus, the Japanese mud crab, is an Asian sentinel crab described in 1835 by Wilhem de Haan.

Macrophthalmus pacificus is a sky-clawed Indo-West Pacific sentinel crab with a smooth, shiny 25 mm carapace.

The stalk-eyed mud crab is an endemic New Zealand marine crab, with debated classification in either Macrophthalmus or Hemiplax.

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