# Inachoididae

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{{Short description|Family of crabs}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| image = Fish4520_-_Flickr_-_NOAA_Photo_Library.jpg
| image_caption = ''[Anasimus latus](/source/Anasimus_latus)''
| taxon = Inachoididae
| authority = [Dana](/source/James_Dwight_Dana), 1851
}}

'''Inachoididae''' is a [family](/source/Family_(taxonomy)) of [crab](/source/crab)s originally erected by [James Dwight Dana](/source/James_Dwight_Dana) in 1852. It was not recognised as a valid family until the early 1980s.<ref name="Ng">{{cite journal|journal=[Raffles Bulletin of Zoology](/source/Raffles_Bulletin_of_Zoology) |year=2008 |volume=17 |pages=1–286 |title=Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world |author=Peter K. L. Ng |author2=Danièle Guinot |author3=Peter J. F. Davie |name-list-style=amp |url=http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s17/s17rbz.pdf |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606061453/http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s17/s17rbz.pdf |archivedate=2011-06-06 }}</ref> Its members closely resemble those of the family [Inachidae](/source/Inachidae), and the Inachoididae could be recognised as a subfamily of that family.<ref name="Ng"/>

*''[Aepinus](/source/Aepinus_(crab))'' <small>Rathbun, 1897</small>
*''[Anasimus](/source/Anasimus)'' <small>A. Milne-Edwards, 1880</small>
*''[Arachnopsis](/source/Arachnopsis)'' <small>Stimpson, 1871</small>
*''[Batrachonotus](/source/Batrachonotus)'' <small>Stimpson, 1871</small>
*''[Collodes](/source/Collodes)'' <small>Stimpson, 1860</small>
*''[Euprognatha](/source/Euprognatha)'' <small>Stimpson, 1871</small>
*''[Inachoides](/source/Inachoides)'' <small>H. Milne-Edwards & Lucas, 1842</small>
*''[Leurocyclus](/source/Leurocyclus)'' <small>Rathbun, 1897</small>
*''[Paradasygyius](/source/Paradasygyius)'' <small>Garth, 1958</small>
*''[Pyromaia](/source/Pyromaia)'' <small>Stimpson, 1871</small>

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