Sealife guideThe heart crabPhyllolithodes papillosus

Taxonomy
  • Common name: Heart crab, flatspined triangle crab
  • French name: Crabe coeur
  • Scientific name: Phyllolithodes papillosus (Brandt, 1848)
  • Family name: Lithodidae
  • Order name: Decapoda
  • Class name: The crustaceans [Malacostraca]
The heart crab (Phyllolithodes papillosus)
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