🦋 Family

Mithracidae

3 species · Animals

Animalia › Arthropoda › Malacostraca › Decapoda › Mithracidae

This is a species description of the small Caribbean crab Mithraculus cinctimanus, which lives commensally with other marine invertebrates.

Mithraculus sculptus is a small Caribbean crab often used to control bubble algae in reef aquaria.

Maguimithrax spinosissimus is the largest native Atlantic crab, found from North Carolina to Venezuela.

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