| Polydectus | |
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| A drawing of Pilumnus cupulifera | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Brachyura |
| Family: | Xanthidae |
| Genus: | Polydectus |
| Species: | P. cupulifer
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| Binomial name | |
| Polydectus cupulifer | |
| Synonyms1 | |
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Polydectus cupulifer is a species of crab in the family Xanthidae, and the only species in the genus Polydectus.2 Together with the genus Lybia, it forms the subfamily Polydectinae.3 It is found in the Indo-Pacific, ranging from Madagascar and the Red Sea in the west to Japan, Hawaii and French Polynesia in the east.4 P. cupulifer is densely covered with setae (bristles), and frequently carries a sea anemone in each chela (claw).5
References
References
- Peter Davie (2010). "Polydectus cupulifer (Latreille, in Milbert, 1812)". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved June 7, 2011.
- Ng, Peter K. L.; Guinot, Danièle; Davie, Peter J. F. (January 2008). "Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 17: 1–286. Archived (PDF) from the original on 6 June 2011. Retrieved 8 June 2011 – via the National University of Singapore.
- Sammy De Grave; N. Dean Pentcheff; Shane T. Ahyong; et al. (2009). "A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. Suppl. 21: 1–109.
- P. J. F. Davie (2002). "Xanthidae: Polydectinae". Crustacea: Malocostraca: Eucarida (Part 2), Decapoda: Anomura, Brachyura. Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 19. CSIRO Publishing. pp. 546–547. ISBN 9780643067929.
- Shou-Yu Chen & Pan-Wen Hsueh (2007). "Polydectus cupulifer (Latreille, 1812) (Decapoda, Xanthidae): first record from Taiwan". Crustaceana. 80 (4): 411–415. doi:10.1163/156854007780440894.