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  5. ›Malacostracans
  6. ›Decapods, Isopods, and allies
  7. ›Decapods and Krill
  8. ›Decapods
  9. ›Crabs, Lobsters, Shrimps, and Allies
  10. ›True Crabs
  11. ›Homoloida
  12. ›Homoloidea
  13. ›Carrier Crabs
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Gordonopsis

Gordonopsis is a genus of deep sea crabs in the family Homolidae. The Homolidae are also known as carrier crabs or porter crabs for their fifth pereiopods (last pair of walking legs), which they use to hold objects in place over the rear half of the carapace in a possible defence mechanism against predators. Species of Gordonopsis are found in deep waters of the Indo-West Pacific region. The genus was erected in 1995 by Danièle Guinot...

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3 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Gordonopsis pacifica

speciesGordonopsis pacifica

Gordonopsis profundorum

speciesGordonopsis profundorum

Gordonopsis robusta

speciesGordonopsis robusta

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1074516.