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Family: | Tanaocheleidae Ng & Clark, 2000
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Genus: | Tanaocheles Kropp, 1984 [1]
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Tanaocheles is a genus of crabs, the only genus in the family Tanaocheleidae.[2] It contains two species, T. bidentata and T. stenochilus.[3] The two species were formerly placed in different families, and they were only shown to be related, and placed in a new subfamily (now elevated to the taxonomic rank of family), in 2000.[3]
Originally described as Chlorodius bidentatus, and later called Chlorodiella bidentata, Tanaocheles bidentata was assigned for a long time to the Xanthidae.[4]
Tanaocheles stenochilus was described in 1989 from material collected in Guam, where it lives among colonies of the stony coral Leptoseris gardineri. It was originally placed in the Trapeziidae.[1]