Dorippidae

Dorippidae
Paradorippe granulata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Suborder:	Pleocyemata
Infraorder:	Brachyura
Superfamily:	Dorippoidea
Family:	Dorippidae Macleay, 1838

Dorippidae is a small family of crabs, commonly found in the shallow sand and mud substrate in coastal waters. Though common, they don't contribute any economic value and are often discarded as bycatch. ^[1]

Dorippidae contains the following genera (extinct genera marked "†"): ^[2]

• † Archaeocypoda Secretan, 1975
• † Bartethusa Quayle & Collins, 1981
• Dorippe Weber, 1795
• Dorippoides Serène & Romimohtarto, 1969
• † Eodorippe Glaessner, 1980
• Heikeopsis Ng, Guinot & Davie, 2008
• † Hillius Bishop, 1983b
• Medorippe Manning & Holthuis, 1981
• Neodorippe Serène & Romimohtarto, 1969
• Nobilum Serène & Romimohtarto, 1969
• Paradorippe Serène & Romimohtarto, 1969
• Philippidorippe H. Chen, 1986
• Phyllodorippe Manning & Holthuis, 1981
• † Sodakus Bishop, 1978
• † Telamonocarcinus Larghi, 2004
• † Tepexicarcinus Feldmann, Vega, Applegate & Bishop, 1998
• † Titanodorippe Blow & Manning, 1996

Legend

In Chinese folklore, after Guan Yu was killed by Lü Meng during the Three Kingdoms period, he transformed into the Guan Gong Crab  [ zh ], also called the Ghost Face Crab or Human Face Crab, distinguished by its red shell resembling a human face. ^[3]

References

1. Zairion; Hakim, A. A.; Mashar, A.; Fahrudin, A.; Adrianto, L.; Widigdo, B.; Wardiatno, Y. (May 2018). "Diversity and distribution of Dorippid Crabs (Brachyura: Dorippidae) in East Coast of Lampung, Indonesia". IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science. 149 (1) 012056. Bibcode:2018E&ES..149a2056Z. doi: 10.1088/1755-1315/149/1/012056 . ISSN   1755-1315.
2. Sammy De Grave; N. Dean Pentcheff; Shane T. Ahyong; et al. (2009). "A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology . Suppl. 21: 1–109. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-06.
3. 汉语动物命名考释 (in Chinese). 巴蜀书社. 2005. p. 643. ISBN   978-7-80659-719-4.