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Loxorhynchus

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Genus of crabs

Loxorhynchus
Sheep crab, Loxorhynchus grandis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Brachyura
Family: Epialtidae
Subfamily: Pisinae
Genus: Loxorhynchus
Stimpson, 1857 
Species

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Loxorhynchus is a genus of crabs of the eastern Pacific Ocean in the family Epialtidae.

Species

Loxorhynchus crispatus (Masking Crab). Note small red strawberry anemones on the crab's back.

References

  1. "Loxorhynchus". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
  2. M. E. Hendrickx & J. L. Cervantes (2003). "A new species of Loxorhynchus Stimpson (Decapoda, Majoidea, Pisidae) from the Pacific Coast of Mexico". Crustaceana. 76 (1): 103–113. doi:10.1163/156854003321672863.
Taxon identifiers
Loxorhynchus


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