Ocypodidae
Ocypode pallidula Hombron & Jacquinot, 1846
Ocypode pallidula Hombron & Jacquinot, 1846
Ocypode pallidula, the pallid ghost crab, is a small burrowing ghost crab found on Indo-Pacific beaches.
Ocypode cursor (Linnaeus, 1758)
Ocypode cursor (Linnaeus, 1758)
Ocypode cursor is a ghost crab with distinct eyestalk bristles, found across the eastern Atlantic and eastern Mediterranean.
Ocypode gaudichaudii H.Milne Edwards & Lucas, 1843
Ocypode gaudichaudii H.Milne Edwards & Lucas, 1843
Ocypode gaudichaudii, the painted ghost crab, is a burrowing sandy beach crab with unique feeding, respiration, and reproductive behavior.
Ocypode quadrata (Fabricius, 1787)
Ocypode quadrata (Fabricius, 1787)
Ocypode quadrata, the Atlantic ghost crab, is a terrestrial sand-burrowing crab found along the Atlantic coast of the Americas.
Ocypode cordimana Latreille, 1818
Ocypode cordimana Latreille, 1818
Ocypode cordimana, the smooth-handed ghost crab, is a widely distributed Ocypodidae crab found in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
Ocypode occidentalis Stimpson, 1860
Ocypode occidentalis Stimpson, 1860
Ocypode occidentalis, the gulf ghost crab, is a medium-sized eastern Pacific crab that preys on sea turtle eggs and hatchlings.
Ocypode macrocera H.Milne Edwards, 1837
Ocypode macrocera H.Milne Edwards, 1837
Ocypode macrocera, the red ghost crab, is a medium-sized South Asian crab in the Ocypodidae family, with distinct male physical traits.
Ocypode ryderi Kingsley, 1880
Ocypode ryderi Kingsley, 1880
Ocypode ryderi Kingsley, 1880 is a ghost crab species with a distinct appearance and average adult length of 35 mm.
Ocypode brevicornis H.Milne Edwards, 1837
Ocypode brevicornis H.Milne Edwards, 1837
Ocypode brevicornis is a large species of ghost crab native to the Indian Ocean that lives on open sandy beaches.
Ocypode stimpsoni Ortmann, 1897
Ocypode stimpsoni Ortmann, 1897
Ocypode stimpsoni is a small crab species found in East Asia, distinguishable from a close relative by missing eyestalk styles.
Ocypode saratan (Forskål, 1775)
Ocypode saratan (Forskål, 1775)
Ocypode saratan, the Red Sea ghost crab, is a medium-large ghost crab found primarily in the Red Sea and across the Indo-West Pacific.
Ocypode convexa Quoy & Gaimard, 1824
Ocypode convexa Quoy & Gaimard, 1824
Ocypode convexa, the golden ghost crab, is a large endemic crab of Western Australian open sandy beaches.
Ocypode ceratophthalmus (Pallas, 1772)
Ocypode ceratophthalmus (Pallas, 1772)
Ocypode ceratophthalmus, the horned ghost crab, is an Indo-Pacific ghost crab species with extended horn-like eyestalk points.
Afruca tangeri (Eydoux, 1835)
Afruca tangeri (Eydoux, 1835)
Afruca tangeri is a large Eastern Atlantic fiddler crab, the only fiddler crab on this coast and the most abundant crab in The Gambia.
Austruca annulipes (H.Milne Edwards, 1837)
Austruca annulipes (H.Milne Edwards, 1837)
Austruca annulipes is a small, reclassified fiddler crab species found across Indo-Pacific coastlines.
Austruca perplexa (H.Milne Edwards, 1852)
Austruca perplexa (H.Milne Edwards, 1852)
Austruca perplexa is an Indo-Pacific fiddler crab species moved to genus Austruca in 2016, known for male claw waving mating signals.
Tubuca arcuata (De Haan, 1835)
Tubuca arcuata (De Haan, 1835)
Tubuca arcuata, the bowed fiddler crab, is an Ocypodidae fiddler crab found in China, Taiwan, Korea, and Japan.
Tubuca coarctata (H.Milne Edwards, 1852)
Tubuca coarctata (H.Milne Edwards, 1852)
Tubuca coarctata is a medium-sized western Pacific fiddler crab with two common names, moved to genus Tubuca from Uca in 2016.
Tubuca urvillei (H.Milne Edwards, 1852)
Tubuca urvillei (H.Milne Edwards, 1852)
Tubuca urvillei is a species that shows distinct morphological differences between male and female individuals.
Tubuca dussumieri (H.Milne Edwards, 1852)
Tubuca dussumieri (H.Milne Edwards, 1852)
Tubuca dussumieri is a sexually dimorphic crab species, moved from Uca to genus Tubuca in 2016.
Tubuca flammula (Crane, 1975)
Tubuca flammula (Crane, 1975)
Tubuca flammula is a species of fiddler crab with characteristic claw size differences between sexes and distinct carapace markings.
Tubuca rosea (Tweedie, 1937)
Tubuca rosea (Tweedie, 1937)
Tubuca rosea, the rose fiddler crab, is a species of crab in the genus Tubuca.
Tubuca signata (Hess, 1865)
Tubuca signata (Hess, 1865)
Tubuca signata is a fiddler crab species with distinct claw differences between males and females.
Tubuca alcocki Shih, Chan & Ng, 2018
Tubuca alcocki Shih, Chan & Ng, 2018
Tubuca alcocki is a northern Indian Ocean mangrove-dwelling species of fiddler crab.
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