''Grapsus'' is a
genus
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of lightfoot
crab
Crabs are decapod crustaceans of the infraorder Brachyura (meaning "short tailed" in Greek language, Greek), which typically have a very short projecting tail-like abdomen#Arthropoda, abdomen, usually hidden entirely under the Thorax (arthropo ...
s, comprising the following species:
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Grapsus albolineatus''
Latreille ''in'' Milbert, 1812
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Grapsus adscensionis''
(Osbeck
Pehr Osbeck (1723 – 23 December 1805) was a Sweden, Swedish explorer, natural history, naturalist and an Apostles of Linnaeus, apostle of Carl Linnaeus. He was born in the parish of Ale Municipality, Hålanda on Västergötland and studied at ...
, 1765)
*''
Grapsus fourmanoiri''
Crosnier, 1965
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Grapsus grapsus
''Grapsus grapsus'' is one of the most common crabs along the western coast of the Americas. It is known as the red rock crab, or, along with other crabs such as ''Percnon gibbesi'', as the Sally Lightfoot crab.
Distribution
''Grapsus grapsus'' ...
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(Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,#Blunt, Blunt (2004), p. 171. was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming o ...
, 1758
Events
January–March
* January 1 – Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus (Carl von Linné) publishes in Stockholm the first volume (''Animalia'') of the 10th edition of ''Systema Naturae'', the starting point of modern zoologic ...
)
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Grapsus granulosus''
Milne-Edwards, 1853
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Grapsus intermedius''
De Man, 1888
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Grapsus longitarsis''
Dana, 1851
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Grapsus tenuicrustatus''
( Herbst, 1783)
'Grapsus' is a New Latin modification of Greek 'grapsaios' meaning 'crab'.
Gallery
File:Grapsus tenuicrustatus - hawaii - 2015-11-01.webm, ''Grapsus tenuicrustatus'' climbing on rocks in Hawaii
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File:Grapsus adscensionis1.jpg, ''Grapsus adscensionis'' at Tenerife
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File:Grapsus adscensionis - Tenerife 01.jpg, ''Grapsus adscensionis'' at Tenerife
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File:Sally lightfoot crabs at Lot's Wife's Ponds.jpg, ''Grapsus adscensionis'' at Saint Helena
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Saint Helena is a volcanic and tropical island, located in the South Atlantic Ocean, some 1,874 km ...
File:Grapsus albolineatus-1.jpg, ''Grapsus albolineatus'' at Karwar
Karwar is a coastal City and the administrative headquarters of Uttara Kannada district, formerly part of the Bombay Presidency, located at the mouth of the Kali River (Karnataka), Kali river along the Konkan Coast in the present-day state of Ka ...
, India
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File:Specimen of Grapsus tenuicrustatus.JPG, ''Grapsus tenuicrustatus''
References
Grapsidae
Decapod genera
Taxa named by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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