The common term sand crab can refer to various species of
crustacean
Crustaceans (from Latin meaning: "those with shells" or "crusted ones") are invertebrate animals that constitute one group of arthropods that are traditionally a part of the subphylum Crustacea (), a large, diverse group of mainly aquatic arthrop ...
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*Crustaceans of the superfamily
Hippoidea
Hippoidea is a superfamily of decapod crustaceans known as mole crabs or sand crabs.
Ecology
Hippoids are adapted to burrowing into sandy beaches, a habit they share with raninid crabs, and the parallel evolution of the two groups is strikin ...
, often known as ''mole crabs''
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Hippidae
Hippidae is a family of decapod crustaceans, currently known by the English name as either mole crab or sand crab, and by an earlier English name as sand bug. They are closely related to the family Albuneidae, with which they are usually joined ...
, a family within Hippoidea
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''Emerita'' (crustacean), a genus within Hippidae
*Crabs of the subfamily
Ocypodidae
The Ocypodidae is a family of semiterrestrial crabs that includes ghost crabs and fiddler crabs. These crabs are found along tropical and temperate shorelines worldwide.
Some genera previously classified within the Ocypodidae family have been r ...
, also commonly known as ''ghost crabs''
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Corystes cassivelaunus
''Corystes cassivelaunus'', the masked crab, helmet crab or sand crab, is a burrowing crab of the North Atlantic and North Sea from Portugal to Norway, which also occurs in the Mediterranean Sea. It may grow up to long (carapace length). The na ...
'', found around the North Atlantic, Mediterranean Sea and North Sea
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Ovalipes australiensis'', found on Australia's south coast
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Portunus pelagicus
''Portunus pelagicus'', also known as the blue crab, blue swimmer crab, blue manna crab and flower crab is a species of large crab found in the Indo-Pacific, including off the coasts Indonesia, Malaysia, Cambodia, Thailand, the Philippines, and V ...
'', an Indo-Pacific swimming crab
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