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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Infraorder
  
Brachyura

Scientific name
  
Geosesarma

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Decapoda

Subphylum
  
Crustacea

Family
  
Sesarmidae

Higher classification
  
Sesarmidae

Rank
  
Genus

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Similar
  
Crab, Geosesarma dennerle, Geosesarma hagen, Crustacean, Cardisoma armatum

Geosesarma feeding time


Geosesarma is genus of small freshwater or terrestrial crabs, typically less than 10 millimetres (0.4 in) across the carapace. They live and reproduce on land with the larval stages inside the egg. They are found from India, through Southeast Asia, to the Solomon Islands and Hawaii.

Contents

Geosesarma Vampire crab Geosesarma sp Practical Fishkeeping Magazine

In the pet trade they are sometimes called vampire crabs. This has nothing to do with their feeding habits, but rather with the bright, contrastingly yellow eyes of some Geosesarma species.

Geosesarma Geosesarma mating behavior The Planted Tank Forum

Species

Geosesarma contains the following species:

Geosesarma My two new Geosesarma sp Arachnoboards

As of March 2015, professor Peter Ng of National University of Singapore has named 20 Geosesarma species, and he "has another half a dozen or so newly collected Geosesarma species from Southeast Asia in his lab, and these species still need to be named and described."

Threats

Geosesarma Geosesarma bicolor alias Vampire crab Hippocampus Bildarchiv

Geosesarma dennerle and Geosesarma hagen, both originally from Java, are threatened by potential illegal over-collecting for the aquarium trade.

Geosesarma Geosesarma crabs mating YouTube

Geosesarma A New Crab from South Asia Geosesarma bicolor Details Articles

References

Geosesarma Wikipedia