Eriphia


Eriphia is a genus of marine crabs in the family Eriphiidae. These crabs are common in most temperate and tropical seas.

Species

The genus contains the following eight extant species:
ImageScientific nameDistribution
Eriphia ferox Koh & Ng, 2008northwestern Pacific
Eriphia gonagra Western Atlantic Ocean
Eriphia granulosa A. Milne-Edwards, 1880the western Atlantic
Eriphia scabricula Dana, 1852Indo-Pacific.
Eriphia sebana Indo-Pacific: north from Japan, China, Taiwan to southeast Asia, west to Australia, Christmas Island, Cocos Islands to India, Oman and east Africa.
Eriphia squamata Stimpson, 1860eastern Pacific
Eriphia smithii MacLeay, 1838Indo-Pacific
Eriphia verrucosa Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea and eastern Atlantic Ocean from Brittany to Mauritania and the Azores

There is also one fossil species, †Eriphia cocchii Ristori, 1886.