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Loxorhynchus
Sign in to saveLoxorhynchus is a genus of crabs of the eastern Pacific Ocean in the family Epialtidae.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassMalacostraca
- OrderDecapoda
- FamilyEpialtidae
Habitatmarine
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 25
- With media
- 4
- Family
- Epialtidae
- Collections
- USNM, SDNHM, LACM, CAS, SIO, CMN
- Recorded in
- United States, Canada, Ecuador
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Loxorhynchus is a genus of crabs of the eastern Pacific Ocean in the family Epialtidae.
==Species== Loxorhynchus crispatus Stimpson, 1857 — masking crab or moss crab Loxorhynchus grandis Stimpson, 1857 — sheep crab Loxorhynchus guinotae Hendrickx & Cervantes, 2003
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Loxorhynchus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.