Tanaocheles
Genus of crabs
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Tanaocheles is a genus of crabs, the only genus in the family Tanaochelidae.[2] It contains two species, T. bidentata and T. stenochilus.[3] The two species were formerly placed in different families, and they were only shown to be related, and placed in a new subfamily (now elevated to the taxonomic rank of family), in 2000.[3]
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Brachyura |
| Section: | Eubrachyura |
| Subsection: | Heterotremata |
| Superfamily: | Pilumnoidea |
| Family: | Tanaochelidae Ng & Clark, 2000 |
| Genus: | Tanaocheles Kropp, 1984[1] |
| Species | |
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Tanaocheles bidentata
Tanaocheles stenochilus
Tanaocheles stenochilus was described in 1989 from material collected in Guam, where it lives among colonies of the stony coral Leptoseris gardineri. It was originally placed in the Trapeziidae.[1]
