Circular crab

Circular crab

Taxobox
name = Circular crab



image_width = 250px
image_caption = "Atelecycles rotundatus"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
subphylum = Crustacea
classis = Malacostraca
ordo = Decapoda
infraordo = Brachyura
superfamilia = Cancroidea
familia = Atelecyclidae
genus = "Atelecyclus"
species = "A. rotundatus"
binomial = "Atelecyclus rotundatus"
binomial_authority = Olivi, 1792

The circular crab, round crab or old man's face crab ("Atelecyclus rotundatus") is a medium-sized crab found on the west coast of Europe and Africa as well as almost all the Mediterranean Sea and on the Cape Verde and Canary islands. It measures about 40 mm across its almost circular carapace and lives on coarse soft bottoms at shallow depths.


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