Gecarcoidea is a 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.
| Gecarcoidea | |
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| Christmas Island red crab | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Brachyura |
| Family: | Gecarcinidae |
| Genus: | Gecarcoidea H. Milne-Edwards, 1837 |
| Synonyms [1] | |
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Two species are recognised:[1]
| Image | Name | Common name | Distribution |
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Gecarcoidea lalandii | Andaman Islands purple crab | the Indo-Pacific from the Andaman Islands and eastwards |
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Gecarcoidea natalis | Christmas Island red crab | Christmas Island and Cocos (Keeling) Islands |
References
edit- ^ a b Ng, Peter K. L.; Guinot, Danièle & Davie, Peter J. F. (2008-01-31). "Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world" (PDF). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 17: 1–286. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2011-06-06 – via the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.
External links
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Data related to Gecarcoidea at Wikispecies
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