Dotillidae

Dotillidae
	Scopimera globosa, a sand bubbler crab
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Crustacea
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Infraorder:	Brachyura
Superfamily:	Ocypodoidea
Family:	Dotillidae; Stimpson, 1858

The Dotillidae are a family of crabs with 59 species, nearly half of which are in the genus Ilyoplax.[1] The two genera Scopimera and Dotilla are collectively the sand bubbler crabs, which leave conspicuous collections of sand pellets on sandy beaches across the tropical and subtropical Indo-Pacific.

Genera

Nine genera are currently recognised:[1]

Dotilla Stimpson, 1858
Dotilloplax Tweedie, 1950
Dotillopsis Kemp, 1919
Ilyoplax Stimpson, 1858
Potamocypoda Tweedie, 1938
Pseudogelasimus Tweedie, 1937
Scopimera De Haan, 1835
Shenius Serène, 1971
Tmethypocoelis Koelbel, 1897

References

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.

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[Grave-1] 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.