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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 of separate families in the superfamily Ocypodoidea, such as the Dotillidae and Macrophthalmidae.
Ocypodinae is one of two subfamilies in the family Ocypodidae, the other being the fiddler crab subfamily, Ucinae. Both subfamilies have members in which one of the claw-bearing legs (the chelipeds) is much larger than the other. However, only male fiddler crabs exhibit this, while both male and female ghost crabs have unequally sized claws.
Ocypode was previously the only genus classified under the ghost crab subfamily Ocypodinae until 2013, when Katsushi Sakai and Michael Türkay reclassified the gulf ghost crab into a separate genus, Hoplocypode. It belongs to the family Ocypodidae. Ghost crabs of the genus Hoplocypode can be distinguished from those in Ocypode by examining ...
Ocypode cursor, the tufted ghost crab, [2] is a species of ghost crab found on sandy beaches along the coasts of the eastern Atlantic Ocean and eastern Mediterranean Sea. Description [ edit ]
It is classified under the genus Ocypode of the ghost crab subfamily Ocypodinae in the family Ocypodidae. [2] [4] The specific name is from Latin africana ("African"). They are commonly known as the "African ghost crab" in English, [3] [5] ocypode africain in French, and capuco africano in Spanish. [3]
The Atlantic ghost crab, Ocypode quadrata, is a species of ghost crab.It is a common species along the Atlantic coast of the United States, where it is the only species of ghost crab; [2] its range of distribution extends from its northernmost reach on beaches in Westport, Massachusetts, south along the coasts of the tropical Western Atlantic Ocean to the beach of Barra do Chui, in Rio Grande ...
Ocypode cordimana is a species of crab in the family Ocypodidae, [1] [2] sometimes called the smooth-handed ghost crab. [3] It is widely distributed in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean . [ 4 ] [ 5 ]
Ocypode gaudichaudii, also known as the painted ghost crab or cart driver crab, is a species of crab found on Pacific beaches from El Salvador to Chile as well as on the Galápagos Islands. The species was first described by Henri Milne-Edwards and Hippolyte Lucas in 1843.