The Ocypodoidea, or ocypoid crabs, are a
superfamily
SUPERFAMILY is a database and search platform of structural and functional annotation for all proteins and genomes. It classifies amino acid sequences into known structural domains, especially into SCOP superfamilies. Domains are functional, str ...
of
crab
Crabs are decapod crustaceans of the infraorder Brachyura, which typically have a very short projecting "tail" (abdomen) ( el, βραχύς , translit=brachys = short, / = tail), usually hidden entirely under the thorax. They live in all the ...
s, named after the genus ''
Ocypode
''Ocypode'' is a genus of ghost crabs found in the sandy shores of tropical and subtropical regions throughout the world. They have a box-like body, thick and elongated eyestalks, and one claw is larger than the other in both males and female ...
''. It contains over 300 extant species in these eight families:
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Camptandriidae Stimpson, 1858
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Dotillidae
The Dotillidae are a family of crabs with 59 species, nearly half of which are in the genus '' Ilyoplax''. The two genera ''Scopimera'' and ''Dotilla'' are collectively the sand bubbler crab
Sand bubbler crabs (or sand-bubblers) are crabs of ...
Stimpson, 1858
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Heloeciidae H. Milne-Edwards, 1852
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Macrophthalmidae Dana, 1851
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Mictyridae
''Mictyris'' is a genus of brightly coloured crabs, placed in its own taxonomical family, the Mictyridae. It inhabits the central Indo-West Pacific region. These crabs congregate on mud flats or beaches in groups of a few thousand, and filter san ...
Dana, 1851
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Ocypodidae
The Ocypodidae are a family of semiterrestrial crabs that includes the ghost crabs and fiddler crabs. They are found on tropical and temperate shorelines around the world.
Some genera previously included in the family are now treated as members o ...
Rafinesque, 1815
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Ucididae Števčić, 2005
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Xenophthalmidae Stimpson, 1858
References
Crabs
Taxa named by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque
Arthropod superfamilies
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