Purple Marsh Crab

Sesarma reticulatum

• Group: Crab

The purple marsh crab makes its home in salt marshes, feeding mainly on the cordgrass Spartina along with the odd crustacean. Its burrowing and grazing can thin out whole stretches of marsh grass where the crabs are abundant.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Arthropoda › Malacostraca › Decapoda › Sesarmidae › Sesarma

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 158458.