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Bellioidea
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Bellioidea

Belliidae is a family of crabs of the order Decapoda.

They respond to predators by hyper-extending all of their limbs and remain in this position a long time (Hazlett).

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2 branches of this superfamily, most-observed first

Heteroziidae

familyHeteroziidae

Belliidae

familyBelliidae

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1134847.