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Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Family: Inachoididae

Genus: Pyromaia

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Pyromaia arachna
[Needlenose pear crab]
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Pyromaia cuspidata
[Dartnose pear crab]

Poppe, Guido and Philippe

Western Atlantic and Indo
Max. Length 1.6 cm CW
Pyromaia tuberculata(Lockington, 1877)

Photo by Poppe, Guido and Philippe
 
Pyromaia tuberculata
[Tuberculate pear crab]


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