The common term sand crab can refer to various species of
crustacean
Crustaceans (Crustacea, ) form a large, diverse arthropod taxon which includes such animals as decapods, seed shrimp, branchiopods, fish lice, krill, remipedes, isopods, barnacles, copepods, amphipods and mantis shrimp. The crustacean group ...
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*Crustaceans of the superfamily
Hippoidea
Hippoidea is a superfamily of decapod crustaceans known as sand crabs or mole crabs.
Ecology
Hippoids are adapted to burrowing into sandy beaches, a habit they share with raninid crabs, and the parallel evolution of the two groups is striking. ...
, often known as ''mole crabs''
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Hippidae
Hippidae is a family of decapod crustaceans, currently known by the English name as either mole crab or sand crab, and by an earlier English name as sand bug. They are closely related to the family Albuneidae, with which they are usually joined ...
, a family within Hippoidea
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''Emerita'' (crustacean), a genus within Hippidae
*Crabs of the subfamily
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 ...
, also commonly known as ''ghost crabs''
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Corystes cassivelaunus
''Corystes cassivelaunus'', the masked crab, helmet crab or sand crab, is a burrowing crab of the North Atlantic and North Sea from Portugal to Norway, which also occurs in the Mediterranean Sea. It may grow up to long (carapace length). The na ...
'', found around the North Atlantic, Mediterranean Sea and North Sea
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Ovalipes australiensis
''Ovalipes australiensis'' is a species of crab found in southern Australia. Its range extends from Western Australia to Queensland, including Tasmania. It is fished commercially and recreationally, although it is not as important as the blue ...
'', found on Australia's south coast
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Portunus pelagicus'', an Indo-Pacific swimming crab
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