Geosesarma
Sign in to saveGeosesarma is genus of small freshwater or terrestrial crabs, typically less than across the carapace. They live and reproduce on land with the larval stages inside the egg. They are found in India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, the Solomon Islands and Hawaii.
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Geosesarma is genus of small freshwater or terrestrial crabs, typically less than across the carapace. They live and reproduce on land with the larval stages inside the egg. They are found in India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, the Solomon Islands and Hawaii.
In the pet trade, they are called vampire crabs. This has nothing to do with their feeding habits, but rather with the bright, contrastingly yellow eyes of some Geosesarma species.. However not all vampire crab species have bright yellow eyes, there are quite a few species that have white or black eyes.
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