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Mud Crabs
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Mud Crabs

Panopeidae

Panopeidae is a family containing 25 genera of morphologically similar crabs, often known as "mud crabs". Their centers of diversity are the Atlantic Ocean and eastern Pacific Ocean.

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15 branches of this family, most-observed first

Lophopanopeus

genusLophopanopeus

Rhithropanopeus

genusRhithropanopeus

Mud Crabs

genusPanopeus

Dyspanopeus

genusDyspanopeus

Eurypanopeus

genusEurypanopeus

Eurytium

genusEurytium

Hexapanopeus

genusHexapanopeus

Acantholobulus

genusAcantholobulus

Eucratopsis

genusEucratopsis

Glyptoplax

genusGlyptoplax

Odontoplax

genusOdontoplax

Milnepanopeus

genusMilnepanopeus

Metopocarcinus

genusMetopocarcinus

Lithopanopeus

genusLithopanopeus

Neopanope

genusNeopanope

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Recorded sightings

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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 50819.