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Ghost and Fiddler Crabs
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Ghost and Fiddler Crabs

Ocypodidae

The Ocypodidae are a family of semiterrestrial crabs that includes the ghost crabs and fiddler crabs. Other genera previously included in the family are now treated as members of separate families in the superfamily Ocypodoidea, such as the Ucididae, Dotillidae, and Macrophthalmidae.

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4 branches of this family, most-observed first

Broad-fronted and Indo-west Pacific Fiddler Crabs

subfamilyGelasiminae

Ghost Crabs

subfamilyOcypodinae

American Narrow-fronted and East Atlantic Fiddler Crabs

subfamilyUcinae

Mangrove Ghost Crabs

subfamilyUcidinae

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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 51932.