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Trapezia

Trapezia
Trapezia tigrina - Red Spotted Guard Crab.jpg
Trapezia tigrina
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
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. It contains the following species:



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