Grapsidae
Pachygrapsus crassipes Randall, 1840
Pachygrapsus crassipes Randall, 1840
Pachygrapsus crassipes Randall, 1840 is a crab with a distinctive striped, mottled color pattern and square 4–5 cm carapace.
Pachygrapsus marmoratus (Fabricius, 1787)
Pachygrapsus marmoratus (Fabricius, 1787)
Pachygrapsus marmoratus is a speedly intertidal crab with a toothed square carapace, found from the Black Sea to southern Europe and the northern Atlantic.
Grapsus grapsus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Grapsus grapsus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Grapsus grapsus, the Sally Lightfoot crab, is a common agile rocky shore crab found across the coasts of the Americas.
Grapsus tenuicrustatus (Herbst, 1783)
Grapsus tenuicrustatus (Herbst, 1783)
Grapsus tenuicrustatus, the thin-shelled rock crab, is an Indo-Pacific shore crab found on rocky beaches and tidepools.
Grapsus adscensionis (Osbeck, 1765)
Grapsus adscensionis (Osbeck, 1765)
Grapsus adscensionis is a crab species found in the eastern Atlantic along Africa's coast and multiple Atlantic islands.
Grapsus albolineatus Latreille, 1812
Grapsus albolineatus Latreille, 1812
Grapsus albolineatus is an Indo-Pacific crab species that lives on rocky reefs and has a long planktonic larval phase.
Grapsus longitarsis Dana, 1851
Grapsus longitarsis Dana, 1851
Grapsus longitarsis is a tropical benthic intertidal crab from the Grapsidae family native to the Indo-Pacific.
Planes minutus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Planes minutus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Planes minutus is a small pelagic swimming crab that associates with Sargassum weed and sea turtles, found across multiple ocean regions.
Geograpsus lividus (H.Milne Edwards, 1837)
Geograpsus lividus (H.Milne Edwards, 1837)
Geograpsus lividus is a species of crab with a long larval development period and fast growth rate found across Pacific and Atlantic oceans.
Leptograpsus variegatus (Fabricius, 1793)
Leptograpsus variegatus (Fabricius, 1793)
Leptograpsus variegatus is a large intertidal rocky zone crab found across parts of the South Pacific and South America.
Metopograpsus thukuhar (Owen, 1839)
Metopograpsus thukuhar (Owen, 1839)
Metopograpsus thukuhar is a non-burrowing omnivorous mangrove-dwelling crab with a wide distribution across Indo-Pacific mangrove forests.
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