African ghost crab male (top) and female (bottom) from the Congo River estuary. The carapace of the male is around 2.9 cm (1.1 in) in width.[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Malacostraca
Order:
Decapoda
Suborder:
Pleocyemata
Infraorder:
Brachyura
Family:
Ocypodidae
Genus:
Ocypode
Species:
O. africana
Binomial name
Ocypode africana
de Man, 1881
African ghost crab distribution range (in green)
Synonyms
Ocypode hexagonura Hilgendorf, 1882
Ocypode edwardsi Osório, 1890
Ocypode africana, commonly known as the African ghost crab, is a species of ghost crabs native to the eastern Atlantic coast of western Africa, from Mauritania to Namibia.[2] They are medium-sized ghost crabs reaching carapace width of 3.4 cm (1.3 in). They can vary in coloration from pinkish to dark grey. They are one of only two ghost crab species found in the eastern Atlantic (the other being the tufted ghost crabs). However, African ghost crabs can easily be distinguished from tufted ghost crabs by the absence of long tufts of hair on the tip of their eyestalks.[2][3]
^Mary J. Rathbun (1921). "The brachyuran crabs collected by the American Museum Congo Expedition, 1909-1915". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 43: 379–474. hdl:2246/1016.
^ abKatsushi Sakai; Michael Türkay (2013). "Revision of the genus Ocypode with the description of a new genus, Hoplocypode (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura)" (PDF). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum – Nature. 56 (2): 665–793.
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