Tags: Crustacean.

Ocypode ceratophthalma the horned ghost crab or horn-eyed ghost crab is a species of ghost crab. It lives in the Indo-Pacific region (except the Red Sea); from the coast of East Africa to the Philippines and from Japan to the Great Barrier Reef. They also occur in the Pacific Islands to as far east as Polynesia and Clipperton Island. As their common name implies O.

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binomial authority
Peter Simon Pallas
class
Malacostraca
family
Ocypodidae
genus
Ghost crab
kingdom
Animal
order
Decapoda, Crab
phylum
Arthropod, Crustacean
synonym
*Cancer caninus (Herbst 1782), *Cancer ceratophthalmus (Pallas 1772), *Ocypoda mcleayana (Hess 1865), *Ocypode ceratophthalmus (Pallas 1772), *Ocypode longicornuta (Dana 1852), *Ocypode rhombea (Weber 1795), *Ocypode urvillei (Guérin 1829), *Ocypode brevicornis var. longicornuta (Dana 1852)

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