page_title: Trapezia
hierarchical_section_title: Trapezia
caption_attribution_description: On the reef around the island of Ta‘ū, American Samoa, a spotted guard crab defends its home and food source, a cauliflower coral, from predators and investigative camera lenses.
context_page_description: Trapezia is a genus of guard crabs in the family Trapeziidae. Like other members of this family, they live in association with corals, feeding on coral tissue and mucus, and defending the corals from predators, like starfish. It contains the following species:
  Trapezia areolata Dana, 1852
  Trapezia bella Dana, 1852
  Trapezia bidentata
  Trapezia cheni Galil, 1983
  Trapezia corallina Gerstaecker, 1857
  Trapezia cymodoce
  Trapezia digitalis Latreille, 1828
  Trapezia flavopunctata Eydoux & Souleyet, 1842
  Trapezia formosa Stimpson, 1869
  Trapezia garthi Galil, 1983
  Trapezia globosa Castro, 1997
  Trapezia guttata Rüppell, 1830
  Trapezia intermedia Miers, 1886
  Trapezia lutea Castro, 1997
  Trapezia neglecta Castro, 2003
  Trapezia punctimanus Odinetz, 1984
  Trapezia punctipes Castro, 1997
  Trapezia richtersi Galil & Lewinsohn, 1983
  Trapezia rufopunctata
  Trapezia septata Dana, 1852
  Trapezia serenei Odinetz, 1984
  Trapezia speciosa Dana, 1852
  Trapezia tigrina Eydoux & Souleyet, 1842
context_section_description: Trapezia is a genus of guard crabs in the family Trapeziidae. Like other members of this family, they live in association with corals, feeding on coral tissue and mucus, and defending the corals from predators, like starfish. It contains the following species:
  Trapezia areolata Dana, 1852
  Trapezia bella Dana, 1852
  Trapezia bidentata (Forskål, 1775)
  Trapezia cheni Galil, 1983
  Trapezia corallina Gerstaecker, 1857
  Trapezia cymodoce (Herbst, 1801)
  Trapezia digitalis Latreille, 1828
  Trapezia flavopunctata Eydoux & Souleyet, 1842
  Trapezia formosa Stimpson, 1869
  Trapezia garthi Galil, 1983
  Trapezia globosa Castro, 1997
  Trapezia guttata Rüppell, 1830
  Trapezia intermedia Miers, 1886
  Trapezia lutea Castro, 1997
  Trapezia neglecta Castro, 2003
  Trapezia punctimanus Odinetz, 1984
  Trapezia punctipes Castro, 1997
  Trapezia richtersi Galil & Lewinsohn, 1983
  Trapezia rufopunctata (Herbst, 1799)
  Trapezia septata Dana, 1852
  Trapezia serenei Odinetz, 1984
  Trapezia speciosa Dana, 1852
  Trapezia tigrina Eydoux & Souleyet, 1842
caption: A red-spotted guard crab (Trapezia tigrina) protecting its home, a cauliflower coral (Pocillopora meandrina).
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