Trapezia

Trapezia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Crustacea
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Infraorder:	Brachyura
Family:	Trapeziidae
Genus:	Trapezia; Latreille, 1825
Type species
	; Latreille, 1828

Trapezia is a genus of guard crabs in the family Trapeziidae. Like other members of this family, they live in association with corals, feeding on coral tissue and mucus, and defending the corals from predators, like starfish.^[1] It contains the following species:^[2]

A red-spotted guard crab (Trapezia tigrina) protecting its home, a cauliflower coral (Pocillopora meandrina).

Dana, 1852
Dana, 1852
(Forskål, 1775)
Galil, 1983
Gerstaecker, 1857
(Herbst, 1801)
Latreille, 1828
Eydoux & Souleyet, 1842
Stimpson, 1869
Galil, 1983
Castro, 1997
Rüppell, 1830
Miers, 1886
Castro, 1997
Castro, 2003
Odinetz, 1984
Castro, 1997
Galil & Lewinsohn, 1983
Trapezia rufopunctata (Herbst, 1799)
Dana, 1852
Odinetz, 1984
Dana, 1852
Eydoux & Souleyet, 1842

References[]

^ John P. Hoover (1999). Hawaiʻi's Sea Creatures: a Guide to Hawaiʻi's Marine Invertebrates. . ISBN 978-1-56647-220-3.
^ Peter K. L. Ng; Danièle Guinot & Peter J. F. Davie (2008). "Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 17: 1–286.

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[1] John P. Hoover (1999). Hawaiʻi's Sea Creatures: a Guide to Hawaiʻi's Marine Invertebrates. . ISBN 978-1-56647-220-3.

[Ng-2] Peter K. L. Ng; Danièle Guinot & Peter J. F. Davie (2008). "Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 17: 1–286.

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