Striped Shore Crab (Pachygrapsus crassipes) (423758496)
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Description: This picture was taken by first focusing the camera on the eyes and then moving the camera to the center before pushing the shutter. It is a characteristic crab of Zone 2 in the rocky shores. Hemigrapsus nudus is very similar, but has purple spots on its claws and does not have lines on its carapace (back) and is a characteristic crab of Zone 3. It is also called a Lined Shore Crab. Date: 16 March 2007, 15:31. Source: Striped Shore Crab (Pachygrapsus crassipes). Author: Jerry Kirkhart from Los Osos, Calif.
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- Opisthokonta (opisthokonts)
- Metazoa (Animal)
- Bilateria
- Protostomia (protostomes)
- Ecdysozoa (ecdysozoans)
- Arthropoda (arthropods)
- Pancrustacea
- Multicrustacea (typical crustaceans)
- Malacostraca (malacostracans)
- Eumalacostraca
- Eucarida
- Decapoda (decapods)
- Pleocyemata (pleocyematans)
- Brachyura (crab)
- Eubrachyura
- Thoracotremata
- Grapsoidea
- Grapsidae (marsh crabs, shore crabs, and talon crabs)
- Pachygrapsus
- Pachygrapsus crassipes (striped shore crab)
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