Tanaocheles

Tanaocheles is a genus of crabs, the only genus in the family Tanaochelidae.^[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]

Tanaocheles
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Suborder:	Pleocyemata
Infraorder:	Brachyura
Section:	Eubrachyura
Subsection:	Heterotremata
Superfamily:	Pilumnoidea
Family:	Tanaochelidae Ng & Clark, 2000
Genus:	Tanaocheles Kropp, 1984[1]
Species
Tanaocheles bidentata (Nobili 1901) Tanaocheles stenochilus Kropp, 1984

Tanaocheles bidentata

Originally described as Chlorodius bidentatus, and later called Chlorodiella bidentata, Tanaocheles bidentata was assigned for a long time to the Xanthidae.^[4]

Tanaocheles stenochilus

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]