Ghost crabs
Horned ghost crab (Ocypode ceratophthalma) in Krabi, Thailand
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Crustacea
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Infraorder:	Brachyura
Family:	Ocypodidae
Subfamily:	Ocypodinae Rafinesque, 1815
Type genus
Ocypode Weber, 1795
Genera
Ocypode Weber, 1795 Hoplocypode Sakai &Türkay, 2013

A ghost crab is crab of the genus Ocypode. Characteristics of the genus include one claw being larger than the other, but this difference is not as marked as in male fiddler crabs.

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