Tags: Crustacean.
Chaceon atopus is a species of crab. This species resembles C. gordonae from the Cape Verde Islands and Sierra Leone in many features: its large size well-developed frontal andanterolateral teeth on the carapace and compressed dactyli of the walking legs. Itdiffers from C. gordonae in having much longer walking legs with the merus more than 6 times longer than high and in its habitat. Chaceon gordonae generally occurs in depths in excess of 2000 metres (6600 ft) C.