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Porcelain crab

  • Aliaporcellana
  • Capilliporcellana
  • Clastotoechus
  • Euceramus
  • Enosteoides
  • Eulenaios
  • Lissoporcellana
  • Megalobrachuium
  • Minyocerus
  • Neopetrolisthes
  • Neopisoma
  • Pachycheles
  • Parapetrolisthes
  • Petrolisthes
  • Pisidia
  • Polyonyx
  • Porcellana
  • Porcellanella
  • Pseudoporcellanella
  • Raphidopus
  • Ulloaia

Porcelain crabs are decapod crustaceans in the family Porcellanidae, which superficially resemble true crabs. They are a good example of carcinization, whereby a non-crab-like animal (in this case a relative of a squat lobster) evolves into an animal that only a specialist would know is not a true crab. They live in all the world's oceans, except the Arctic Ocean and the Antarctic.

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