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Trapezia rufopunctata (Rust-Spotted Guard Crab)
Scientific name: Trapezia rufopunctata

Taxonomy: Kingdom Animalia → Phylum Arthropoda → Subphylum Crustacea → Superclass Multicrustacea → Class Malacostraca → Subclass Eumalacostraca → Superorder Eucarida → Order Decapoda → Suborder Pleocyemata → Infraorder Brachyura → Section Eubrachyura → Subsection Heterotremata → Superfamily Trapezioidea → Family Trapeziidae → Subfamily Trapeziinae → Genus Trapezia

Common name: Rust-Spotted Guard Crab
Locations: Hawaii, Indo-Pacific
Group: Marine LifeInvertebratesCrabs

Bottom of claw has teeth. Yellow eyes, not green.

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