Dark Shore Crab

Pachygrapsus gracilis

• Group: Crab

A nimble shore crab of the splash and spray zone, the dark shore crab scuttles over rock and clambers onto emergent vegetation at the water's edge. It feeds on settled organic matter scraped from surfaces.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Arthropoda › Malacostraca › Decapoda › Grapsidae › Pachygrapsus

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 241200.