Tags: Crustacean.

Gecarcoidea is genus of terrestrial crabs. The crabs live in forests but must come to the coast to breed. When it is dry in the summer the crabs are inactive but when it is the wet season they are ready to migrate.Two species are recognised: Gecarcoidea lalandii Gecarcoidea natalis Christmas Island red crab↑ 1.0 1.1

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class
Malacostraca
family
Gecarcinidae
kingdom
Animal
order
Decapoda, Crab
phylum
Arthropod, Crustacean
synonym
*Hylaeocarcinus (Wood-Mason 1873), *Limnocarcinus (De Man 1879), *Pelocarcinus (H. Milne-Edwards 1853)

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