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  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Arthropods
  4. Malacostracans
  5. Decapods
  6. Thoracotrematan Crabs
  7. Land, Shore, and Marsh Crabs

superfamily

Land, Shore, and Marsh Crabs

Grapsoidea

Includes
21 native 2 introduced 16 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Shore Crabs 9 native
  • Sesarmid Marsh Crabs 5 native
  • Varunid Crabs 4 native
  • Flat Crabs 2 native
  • Rafting Crabs 1 native
  • Engraved Crabs

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Most observed native land, shore, and marsh crabs All

Native to the US, by observations.

  • Striped Shore Crab Pachygrapsus crassipes 34,840 observations
  • Thin-shelled Rock Crab Grapsus tenuicrustatus 8,062 observations
  • Estuarine Rock Crab Metopograpsus thukuhar 1,347 observations
  • Flat Rock Crab Percnon planissimum 573 observations
  • Purple Marsh Crab Sesarma reticulatum 353 observations
  • Henshaw's Shore Crab Cyclograpsus henshawi 16 observations

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