Leucosiidae Samouelle, 1819
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/C5657B52-FF51-B3DE-44D1-FEA7CA6E0ADD |
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Felipe |
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Leucosiidae Samouelle, 1819 |
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Family Leucosiidae Samouelle, 1819 View in CoL
The purse crabs burrow in sand, leaving only the front of the carapace, eye, antennae and a respiratory channel exposed. Members of the superfamily are diverse in tropical and warm-temperate waters elsewhere in the world, but only one species occurs in California.
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