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Varunidae

18 species · Animals

Animalia › Arthropoda › Malacostraca › Decapoda › Varunidae

Hemigrapsus nudus (Dana, 1851)

Hemigrapsus nudus, the purple shore crab, is a small North American Pacific coast crab with distinct physical and life history traits.

Hemigrapsus sanguineus (De Haan, 1835)

Hemigrapsus sanguineus the Asian shore crab is a widely introduced invasive crab native to the northwestern Pacific Ocean.

Hemigrapsus oregonensis (Dana, 1851)

Hemigrapsus oregonensis is a variable-colored intertidal Pacific crab native to the west coast of North America.

Hemigrapsus crenulatus (H.Milne Edwards, 1837)

Hemigrapsus crenulatus, the hairy-handed crab, is a euryhaline intertidal semi-terrestrial marine crab endemic to New Zealand.

Hemigrapsus sexdentatus (H.Milne Edwards, 1837)

Hemigrapsus sexdentatus is a New Zealand intertidal crab with distinct color forms and male-dominated reproductive competition.

Hemigrapsus takanoi Asakura & Watanabe, 2005

Hemigrapsus takanoi, the brush-clawed shore crab, is native to East Asia and is an invasive species spreading across European coasts.

Eriocheir sinensis H.Milne Edwards, 1853

Eriocheir sinensis, the Chinese mitten crab, is a catadromous crab native to East Asian temperate and subtropical coastal waters.

Eriocheir japonica (De Haan, 1835)

Eriocheir japonica, the Japanese mitten crab, is a catadromous, economically important edible crab native to East Asia and parts of Russia, with introduced populations elsewhere.

Varuna litterata (Fabricius, 1798)

Varuna litterata is a euryhaline native Indo-Pacific crab that lives in slow fresh or brackish estuary waters.

Brachynotus sexdentatus (Risso, 1827)

Brachynotus sexdentatus is a small crab native to the Mediterranean and Black Seas, with a well-documented life cycle and an introduced now-extinct population in Wales.

Austrohelice crassa (Dana, 1851)

The tunnelling mud crab (Austrohelice crassa) is an endemic New Zealand marine Varunidae crab growing up to 40 mm wide.

Cyclograpsus lavauxi H.Milne Edwards, 1853

Cyclograpsus lavauxi, the smooth shore crab, is a small temperate grapsid crab found in New Zealand and Chile's Juan Fernández Islands.

Helice tridens (De Haan, 1835)

Helice tridens is a semi-terrestrial mudflat crab native to coasts of Japan and the Korean Peninsula.

Pseudohelice subquadrata (Dana, 1851)

Pseudohelice subquadrata, the purple and cream shore crab, is a Varunidae family crab found across Indo-Pacific mangrove shore habitats.

Chasmagnathus convexus (De Haan, 1835)

Chasmagnathus convexus is an endemic East Asian common mud-flat crab that has two different color forms.

Helograpsus haswellianus (Whitelegge, 1890)

Haswell’s shore crab (Helograpsus haswellianus) is the only species in its genus, found in Australian coastal saltmarshes.

Paragrapsus laevis (Dana, 1851)

Paragrapsus laevis, the mottled shore crab, is a small crab found in tidal shore habitats of southeastern Australia.

Neohelice granulata (Dana, 1851)

Neohelice granulata is the only crab species in its genus, ranked the sixth most studied crab species in 2009.

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