Tags: Crustacean.

Carpilius convexus is a species of crab that lives in the Indo-Pacific from Hawaii to the Red Sea and South Africa. It was first described by Peter Forsskål in 1775 as Cancer convexus and has sometimes been treated as a variety of the larger species Carpilius maculatus. The biology of the genus Carpilius is poorly known.

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binomial authority
Peter Forsskål
class
Malacostraca
family
Carpilioidea
genus
Carpilius
kingdom
Animal
order
Decapoda, Crab
phylum
Arthropod, Crustacean
synonym
*Cancer adspersus (Herbst 1790), *Cancer convexus (Forsskål 1775), *Cancer petraeus (Herbst 1801)

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