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Ghost, Fiddler, Sand Bubbler Crabs and Allies
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Ghost, Fiddler, Sand Bubbler Crabs and Allies

Ocypodoidea

The Ocypodoidea, or ocypoid crabs, are a superfamily of crabs, named after the genus Ocypode. It contains over 300 extant species in these eight families:

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7 branches of this superfamily, most-observed first

Ghost and Fiddler Crabs

familyOcypodidae

Sand Bubbler Crabs and Allies

familyDotillidae

Macrophthalmidae

familyMacrophthalmidae

Soldier Crabs

familyMictyridae

Semaphore Crabs

familyHeloeciidae

Camptandriidae

familyCamptandriidae

Xenophthalmidae

familyXenophthalmidae

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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 51931.