Porcelain crab

Porcelain crabs ( Porcellanidae )

Porcelain crabs ( Porcellanidae ) are mostly small crustaceans that resemble with their oval carapace of the crabs ( Brachyura ) very much. They have longer probes than this. A pair of mouthparts is enlarged, feathered and is used to planktonic food to filter out of the water. With porcelain crabs the last pair of legs is shortened.

They live under rocks or coral boulders in various gap systems, as commensals on stony corals, soft corals, sea anemones and sponges, and some species associated with mangroves.

Porcelain crabs often have a colorful drawing of a speckle pattern.

Genera

  • Aliaporcellana Nakasone & Miyake, 1969
  • Capilliporcellana Haig, 1981
  • Clastotoechus Haig, 1960
  • Euceramus Stimpson, 1858
  • Enosteoides Johnson, 1970
  • Eulenaios Ng & Nakasone, 1993
  • Lissoporcellana Haig, 1978
  • Megalobrachuium Stimpson, 1858
  • Minyocerus Stimpson, 1858
  • Neopetrolisthes Miyake, 1937
  • Neopisoma Haig, 1960
  • Pachycheles Ward, 1942
  • Parapetrolisthes Haig, 1962
  • Petrolisthes Stimpson, 1858
  • Pisidia Leach, 1820
  • Polyonyx Stimpson, 1858
  • Porcellana Lamarck, 1801
  • Porcellanella White, 1852
  • Pseudoporcellanella Sankarankutty, 1961
  • Raphidopus Stimpson, 1858
  • Ulloaia Glassell, 1938

Swell

  • SA Fosså, & AJ Nilsen: Coral Reef Aquarium. Volume 6, Birgit Schmettkamp Verlag, Bornheim 1998, ISBN 3-928819-18-6
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