Bloom Native gardener's
field companion

Explore

Field report Layers Search
Log in Sign up
  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Arthropods
  4. Malacostracans
  5. Decapods
  6. Land, Shore, and Marsh Crabs
  7. Shore Crabs
  8. Most observed native

Most observed native shore crabs

Native to the US, by how plants support them, most observed first.

Plant eaters All

2 native animals that feed on plants, most observed first.

  • Striped Shore Crab Pachygrapsus crassipes 34,840 observations
  • Mottled Shore Crab Pachygrapsus transversus 3,351 observations

Other species All

7 native species with no plant ties on record, most observed first.

  • Sally Lightfoot Crab Grapsus grapsus 17,056 observations
  • Thin-shelled Rock Crab Grapsus tenuicrustatus 8,062 observations
  • Mangrove Root Crab Goniopsis cruentata 2,363 observations
  • Gulfweed Crab Planes minutus 1,405 observations
  • Estuarine Rock Crab Metopograpsus thukuhar 1,347 observations
  • American Nipper Geograpsus lividus 362 observations
  • Wharf Crab Pachygrapsus gracilis 90 observations

We can't find the internet

Attempting to reconnect

Something went wrong!

Attempting to reconnect