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Coral Gall Crabs
Cryptochiridae
Cryptochiridae is a family of crabs known commonly as gall crabs or coral gall crabs. They live inside dwellings in corals and cause the formation of galls in the coral structure. The family is currently placed in its own superfamily, Cryptochiroidea.
Gall crabs are sexually dimorphic, with males being much smaller than females. Contrary to females, most males are free-living and "visit" females for mating.
21 branches of this family, most-observed first
Utinomiella
genusUtinomiella
Pseudocryptochirus
genusPseudocryptochirus
Hapalocarcinus
genusHapalocarcinus
Neotroglocarcinus
genusNeotroglocarcinus
Opecarcinus
genusOpecarcinus
Lithoscaptus
genusLithoscaptus
Dacryomaia
genusDacryomaia
Fizesereneia
genusFizesereneia
Troglocarcinus
genusTroglocarcinus
Zibrovia
genusZibrovia
Xynomaia
genusXynomaia
Sphenomaia
genusSphenomaia
Pseudohapalocarcinus
genusPseudohapalocarcinus
Pelycomaia
genusPelycomaia
Luciades
genusLuciades
Kroppcarcinus
genusKroppcarcinus
Hiroia
genusHiroia
Fungicola
genusFungicola
Detocarcinus
genusDetocarcinus
Cryptochirus
genusCryptochirus
Cecidocarcinus
genusCecidocarcinus
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 195348.