Global InformationAllopetrolisthes spinifrons information
| Allopetrolisthes spinifrons | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia
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| Phylum: | Arthropoda
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| Subphylum: | Crustacea
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| Class: | Malacostraca
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| Order: | Decapoda
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| Family: | Porcellanidae
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| Genus: | Allopetrolisthes
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| Species: | A. spinifrons
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| Binomial name | |
| Allopetrolisthes spinifrons (H. Milne-Edwards, 1837)
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| Synonyms [1] | |
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Allopetrolisthes spinifrons is a species of porcelain crab. It displays "hypercarcinisation", whereby the resemblance to a true crab is enhanced by sexual dimorphism of the abdomen. It lives along the Pacific coast of Peru and Chile, as a symbiont of a sea anemone.
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