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: Image Scientific name Distribution Eriphia ferox Koh & Ng, 2008 northwestern Pacific Eriphia gonagra (Fabricius, 1781)Western Atlantic Ocean Eriphia granulosa A. Milne-Edwards, 1880the western Atlantic Eriphia scabricula Dana, 1852Indo-Pacific. Eriphia sebana (Shaw & Nodder, 1803)Indo-Pacific: north from Japan, China, Taiwan to southeast Asia, west to Australia, Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands to India, Oman and east Africa. Eriphia squamata Stimpson, 1860 eastern Pacific Eriphia smithii MacLeay, 1838Indo-Pacific Eriphia verrucosa (Forskål, 1775) 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.
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