Hepatus is a genus of crabs in the family Aethridae, containing seven extant species, plus some fossil species: * H. Milne-Edwards, 1837 * Hepatus epheliticus (Linnaeus, 1763) * Holthuis, 1959 * Neumann, 1878 * Rathbun, 1898 * Hepatus pudibundus (Herbst, 1785) * Holthuis, 1959 Both and are also known as fossils. The other fossil species include: * Blow, 2003 * Rathbun, 1898 * Collins & Morris, 1976 * Collins et al., 1996 * Feldmann et al., 2005