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Rock and Horse Crabs
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Rock and Horse Crabs

Cancroidea

Cancroidea is a superfamily of crabs, comprising the families Atelecyclidae and Cancridae, and tentatively †Montezumellidae. Four other families have been separated into new superfamilies: Cheiragonidae into Cheiragonoidea, Corystidae into Corystoidea, and both Pirimelidae and Thiidae into Portunoidea.

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2 branches of this superfamily, most-observed first

Rock Crabs

familyCancridae

Horse Crabs

familyAtelecyclidae

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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 47829.