''Ocypode macrocera'', the red ghost crab, is a species of crab in the family

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. It is a medium-sized species of ''

Ocypode ''Ocypode'' is a genus of ghost crabs found in the sandy shores of tropical and subtropical regions throughout the world. They have a box-like body, thick and elongated eyestalks, and one claw is larger than the other in both males and females ...

'' found in

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(including the

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, and

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. In adult males, the outer edges of the eye orbits are tooth-shaped and project forward. The palm of the claws are densely covered with tubercles on the upper surface, with distinctively serrated upper and lower margins. The stridulating ridge has 35 to 56 tubercles with striae. The tip of the smaller claw is characteristically blunt. Their eyestalks possess styles.

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Ocypodoidea Crabs of the Indian Ocean Taxa named by Henri Milne-Edwards Crustaceans described in 1837 {{Eubrachyura-stub