Dotillidae

{{Short description|Family of crabs}}

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| image = Kometsukigani_06g0139v.jpg

| image_caption = Scopimera globosa, a sand bubbler crab

| display_parents = 3

| taxon = Dotillidae

| authority = Stimpson, 1858

}}

The Dotillidae are a family of crabs with 59 species, nearly half of which are in the genus Ilyoplax.{{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 |format=PDF |display-authors=etal |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606064728/http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s21/s21rbz1-109.pdf |archivedate=2011-06-06 }} The two genera Scopimera and Dotilla are collectively the sand bubbler crabs, which leave conspicuous collections of sand pellets on sandy beaches across the tropical and subtropical Indo-Pacific.