Trapezia (genus)

Trapezia
Trapezia tigrina
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Brachyura
Family: Trapeziidae
Genus: Trapezia
Latreille, 1825
Type species
Trapezia dentifrons
Latreille, 1828

Trapezia is a genus of guard crabs in the family Trapeziidae. Like other members of this family, they live in association with corals, feeding on coral tissue and mucus, and defending the corals from predators, like starfish.[1] It contains the following species:[2]

A red-spotted guard crab (Trapezia tigrina) protecting its home, a cauliflower coral (Pocillopora meandrina).
  1. ^ John P. Hoover (1999). Hawaiʻi's Sea Creatures: a Guide to Hawaiʻi's Marine Invertebrates. Mutual Publishing. ISBN 978-1-56647-220-3.
  2. ^ Peter K. L. Ng; Danièle Guinot & Peter J. F. Davie (2008). "Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 17: 1–286.