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Red Rock Crab

Grapsus grapsus

Description:

Grapsus grapsus is one of the most common crabs along the western coast of the Americas. It is known variously as, "red rock crab", "abuete negro", and along with crabs such as Percnon gibbesi as, "Sally Lightfoot".

Habitat:

Santiago Island. Galapagos

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2 Comments

pamsai
pamsai 11 years ago

thanks for moving this spotting to the correct category. Is there any way a list could be put up somewhere on Noah of what fits into which category? That would be helpful.

Scott Frazier
Scott Frazier 11 years ago

Moved to Arthropods

pamsai
Spotted by
pamsai

Ecuador

Spotted on May 25, 2011
Submitted on Dec 15, 2012

Spotted for Mission

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