''Haberma'' is genus of small

mangrove A mangrove is a shrub or tree that grows in coastal saline water, saline or brackish water. The term is also used for tropical coastal vegetation consisting of such species. Mangroves are taxonomically diverse, as a result of convergent evoluti ...

terrestrial crab A number of lineages of crabs have evolved to live predominantly on land. Examples of terrestrial crabs are found in the families Gecarcinidae and Gecarcinucidae, as well as in selected genera from other families, such as ''Sesarma'', althoug ...

s, typically less than across the

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. The genus was established by Ng and Schubart in 2002 with the discovery of the species ''Haberma nanum'' in Singapore. A second species, ''Haberma kamora'', was discovered in Papua. Most recently, ''

Haberma tingkok ''The Micro Mangrove Crab (Haberma tingkok)'' is a species of micro-mangrove crab native to Hong Kong. It was first discovered by Stefano Cannicci from the University of Hong Kong and Peter Ng from the University of Singapore in the Ting Kok M ...

'' was discovered in

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. The genus is distinguished by the first two pairs of the male ambulatory legs, which have characteristic subchelate dactyli and propodi.

Species

* '' Haberma kamora'' * '' Haberma nanum'' * ''

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q18583298 Decapod genera Mangrove fauna