broadback urn crab

Pitho lherminieri

Classification

Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Family: Mithracidae

Pitho is a genus of spider crabs in the family Mithracidae. Description Crabs in the genus Pitho have carapaces that are wide and truncated in the front and come to a rounded point at the rear. The rostrum is short and comes to two teeth.

Distribution

broadback urn crab — (c) Turner Brockman, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) · CC-BY-SA

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

Brazil · 3

Sources and credits

Photo(c) Turner Brockman, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) · CC-BY-SA DescriptionPitho, Wikipedia contributors

broadback urn crab

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