Galapagos Species Database
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Trapezia bidentata
Cangrejo, Crab
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Malacostraca
Order
Decapoda
Suborder
Pleocyemata
Superfamily
Trapezioidea
Family
Trapeziidae
Genus
Trapezia
Species
bidentata
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Cancer bidentatus Forskål, 1775, Grapsillus subinteger MacLeay, 1838, Trapezia cymodoce var. edentula Laurie, 1906, Trapezia ferruginea Latreille, 1828 Trapezia ferruginea var. typica Borradaile, 1900, Trapezia miniata Hombron & Jacquinot, 1846 [in Hombron & Jacquinot, 1842-1854], Trapezia subdentata Gerstaecker, 1856 (Horton et al., 2021).
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: Comores, Indian Ocean, Mdagascar, Mozambique Channel, North Pacific Ocean, Red sea, Republic of Mauritius, Seychells, South Pacific Ocean (Horton et al., 2021).
- Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Trapezia bidentata", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=19759. Accessed 4 November 2026.