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Red-spotted guard crab
Trapezia tigrina
Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 210186, checked 2026-10-31).
- English
- Red-spotted guard crab
- Scientific
- Trapezia tigrina
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Group
- Crabs
- Depth and habitat
- Sea floor (benthic), recorded from 1 to 90 m
- IUCN status
- NE · Not EvaluatedNot Evaluated (NE)
Description
A coral guard crab with a pale shell covered in red spots that lives among the branches of Pocillopora corals.
In the Maldives
Recorded from the Maldives: museum specimens (n=4); iNaturalist research-grade observations in the Maldives (n=16, 6 observers); SeaLifeBase Maldives checklist.
Sources
- sealifebase.se /summary/Trapezia-tigrina.html
- marinespecies.org /aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=210186
- inaturalist.org /taxa/130653
- commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/File:Red-spotted_Guard_Crab,_Alifu_Alifu_Atoll,_Maldives_importe
Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.