{{Short description|Family of crabs}} {{automatic taxobox | 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''.<ref name="Grave">{{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 }}</ref> 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.
==Genera== Nine genera are currently recognised:<ref name="Grave"/> *''Dotilla'' <small>Stimpson, 1858</small> *''Dotilloplax'' <small>Tweedie, 1950</small> *''Dotillopsis'' <small>Kemp, 1919</small> *''Ilyoplax'' <small>Stimpson, 1858</small> *''Potamocypoda'' <small>Tweedie, 1938</small> *''Pseudogelasimus'' <small>Tweedie, 1937</small> *''Scopimera'' <small>De Haan, 1835</small> *''Shenius'' <small>Serène, 1971</small> *''Tmethypocoelis'' <small>Koelbel, 1897</small>
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