Dorippidae

{{Short description|Family of crabs}}

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| image = Paradorippe granulata - National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo - DSC06758.JPG

| image_caption = Paradorippe granulata

| taxon = Dorippidae

| authority = Macleay, 1838

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Dorippidae is a small family of crabs, containing the following genera (extinct genera marked "†"):{{cite journal|journal=Raffles Bulletin of Zoology |year=2009 |volume=Suppl. 21 |pages=1–109 |title=A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans |author1=Sammy De Grave |author2=N. Dean Pentcheff |author3=Shane T. Ahyong |url=http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s21/s21rbz1-109.pdf |display-authors=etal |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606064728/http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s21/s21rbz1-109.pdf |archive-date=2011-06-06 }}

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Legend

In Chinese folklore, after Guan Yu was killed by Lü Meng during the Three Kingdoms period, he transformed into the {{ill|Guan Gong Crab|zh|中華關公蟹 (關公蟹)}}, also called the Ghost Face Crab or Human Face Crab, distinguished by its red shell resembling a human face.{{cite book |title=汉语动物命名考释 |date=2005 |publisher=巴蜀书社 |isbn=978-7-80659-719-4 |page=643 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q6dGAAAAMAAJ&q=%E9%97%9C%E5%85%AC%E8%9F%B9+%E9%97%9C%E7%BE%BD |language=zh}}

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Category:Crabs

Category:Decapod families

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