Ocypode saratan
| Ocypode saratan | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Brachyura |
| Family: | Ocypodidae |
| Genus: | Ocypode |
| Species: | O. saratan
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| Binomial name | |
| Ocypode saratan (Forskål, 1775)[1]
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Ocypode saratan is a medium to large-sized species of Ocypode found in the Red Sea. Very common species in the Red Sea, and one of only two species known from there (O. cordimanus has also been recorded in the Red Sea, but only rarely). Also known from Madagascar through Indian Ocean to the Western Pacific. Their eyestalks possess styles.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Ocypode saratan (Forskål, 1775)". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2023-05-04.
- ^ Sakai, Katsushi; Tuerkay, Michael (2013). "Revision of the genus Ocypode with the description of a new genus, Hoplocypode (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura)". Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 56 (2): 665–793. ISSN 0079-8835.
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