Hepatus is a genus of crabs in the family Aethridae, containing seven extant species, plus some fossil species:

• Hepatus chiliensis H. Milne-Edwards, 1837
• Hepatus epheliticus (Linnaeus, 1763)
• Hepatus gronovii Holthuis, 1959
• Hepatus kossmanni Neumann, 1878
• Hepatus lineatus Rathbun, 1898
• Hepatus pudibundus (Herbst, 1785)
• Hepatus scaber Holthuis, 1959

Both H. chiliensis and H. lineatus are also known as fossils. The other fossil species include:

• Hepatus bottomsi Blow, 2003
• Hepatus lineatus Rathbun, 1898
• Hepatus nodosus Collins & Morris, 1976
• Hepatus praecox Collins et al., 1996
• Hepatus spinimarginatus Feldmann et al., 2005

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