Cancrocaeca xenomorpha | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Order: | Decapoda |
Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
Infraorder: | Brachyura |
Family: | Hymenosomatidae |
Genus: | Cancrocaeca Ng, 1991 |
Species: | C. xenomorpha
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Binomial name | |
Cancrocaeca xenomorpha Ng, 1991
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Cancrocaeca xenomorpha is a species of troglobitic (cave-dwelling) freshwater crab from Sulawesi, the only species in the monotypic genus Cancrocaeca. It has been described as the world's "most highly cave-adapted species of crab".[1]