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tuberculate pear crab

Pyromaia tuberculata

Classification

Pyromaia tuberculata is a species of crab in the family Inachoididae. Taxonomy Pyromaia tuberculata, also known as the fire crab, was first described by Lockington in 1877 off the coast of San Diego, California. The familial classification of pyromaia is currently still controversial.

Distribution

(c) Kelvin Perrie, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY
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Countries in the Picchu catalog
United States of America · 22