True Crab

Heteropanope glabra

• Group: Crab
• For divers: safe

A small estuarine crab of the lower shore, it shelters in sediment among rocks where fresh and salt water mix. Around Hong Kong it turns up commonly tucked into oyster clumps and rock crevices.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Arthropoda › Malacostraca › Decapoda › Pilumnidae › Heteropanope

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 442438.