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Epilobocera
Sign in to saveEpilobocera is a genus of crabs in the family Epiloboceridae (formerly Pseudothelphusidae). It is the only genus in its family; this taxonomic arrangement follows the revision of the family Pseudothelphusidae by Álvarez and colleagues.
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GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassMalacostraca
- OrderDecapoda
- FamilyEpiloboceridae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 20
- With media
- 1
- Family
- Pseudothelphusidae
- Collections
- MCZ, NHMUK, USNM, UF
- Recorded in
- Dominican Republic, Haiti, Puerto Rico, United States
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Epilobocera is a genus of crabs in the family Epiloboceridae (formerly Pseudothelphusidae). It is the only genus in its family; this taxonomic arrangement follows the revision of the family Pseudothelphusidae by Álvarez and colleagues.
==Species== Epilobocera contains the following species: Epilobocera armata Smith, 1870 Epilobocera capolongoi Pretzmann, 2000 Epilobocera cubensis Stimpson, 1860 Epilobocera gertraudae Pretzmann, 1965 Epilobocera gilmanii (Smith, 1870) Epilobocera haytensis Rathbun, 1893 Epilobocera sinuatifrons (A. Milne-Edwards, 1866) Epilobocera wetherbeei Rodriguez & Williams, 1995
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