Tags: Crustacean.
Varunidae is a family of thoracotrematan crabs. The delimitation of this family part of the taxonomically confusing Grapsoidea is undergoing revision. For a long time they were placed at the rank of subfamily in the Grapsidae but they appear to be closest to Macropthalmus and the Mictyridae which are usually placed in the Ocypodoidea.
