Tags: Crustacean.

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.

binomial authority
Henri Milne-Edwards
class
Malacostraca
family
Porcelain crab
genus
Allopetrolisthes
kingdom
Animal
order
Decapoda
phylum
Arthropod, Crustacean
synonym
*Petrolisthes spinifrons (H. Milne-Edwards 1837), *Porcellana spinifrons (H. Milne-Edwards 1837)

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