Sealife guideThe sheep crabLoxorhynchus grandis
Last updated on 07/11/2024 at 12:13 AM
Taxonomy
- Common name: Sheep crab, californian sheep crab
- French name: Crabe araignée mouton californien
- Scientific name: Loxorhynchus grandis (Stimpson, 1857)
- Family name: Epialtidae
- Order name: Decapoda
- Class name: The crustaceans [Malacostraca]
Within the same family
Corallimorph decorator crab
(Cyclocoeloma tuberculata)
Decorator arrow crab
(Hyastenus bispinosus)
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(Galathea strigosa)
Warty crab
(Eriphia verrucosa)
Yellowline arrow crab
(Stenorhynchus seticornis)
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