Orithyia sinica
| Orithyia sinica | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Brachyura |
| Section: | Eubrachyura |
| Subsection: | Heterotremata |
| Superfamily: | Orithyioidea Dana, 1852 |
| Family: | Orithyiidae Dana, 1852 |
| Genus: | Orithyia Fabricius, 1798 |
| Species: | O. sinica |
| Binomial name | |
| Orithyia sinica (Linnaeus, 1771) | |
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Orithyia sinica, sometimes called tiger crab or the tiger face crab, is a "singularly unusual" species of crab, whose characteristics warrant its separation into a separate genus, family and even superfamily, having previously been included in the Dorippoidea or Leucosioidea. Its larvae, for instance, are unlike those of any other crab.