Leucosiidae Samouelle, 1819

Wicksten, Mary K., 2012, Decapod Crustacea of the Californian and Oregonian Zoogeographic Provinces 3371, Zootaxa 3371, pp. 1-307 : 206

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1175­5334

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scientific name

Leucosiidae Samouelle, 1819
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Family Leucosiidae Samouelle, 1819 View in CoL

The purse crabs burrow in sand, leaving only the front of the carapace, eye, antennae and a respiratory channel exposed. Members of the superfamily are diverse in tropical and warm-temperate waters elsewhere in the world, but only one species occurs in California.

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