Xenocarcinus
Genus of crabs
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Xenocarcinus is a genus of spider crabs in the family Epialtidae.[2] They inhabit soft corals at subtidal zones up to 70 meters in depth in the Indo-West Pacific region, being found in Réunion, Aldabra, the Red Sea, the Persian Gulf, Sri Lanka, the Indo-Malayan Archipelago and Japan.[3] Xenocarcinus conicus and Xenocarcinus tuberculatus crabs were found in Mu Koh Tao, western Gulf of Thailand, associated with gorgonians and wire coral, respectively.[4]
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| Xenocarcinus | |
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| Xenocarcinus tuberculatus | |
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| Xenocarcinus conicus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Brachyura |
| Family: | Epialtidae |
| Subfamily: | Epialtinae |
| Genus: | Xenocarcinus White, 1847[1][2] |
| Type species | |
| Xenocarcinus tuberculatus | |
| Species | |
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See Taxonomy | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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Huenioides A. Milne-Edwards, 1865 | |
