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striped shore crab

Pachygrapsus crassipes

Classification

Family
Grapsidae

Pachygrapsus crassipes, the striped shore crab or lined shore crab, is a small crab found on both rocky and hard-mud soft seashores of the northeastern and northwestern Pacific Ocean. In North America, this species occurs from central Oregon, south through California to near Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico. There is an isolated population with a wide range disjunction at Bamfield on Vancouver Island, Canada.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
United States of America · 13,501Mexico · 255Canada · 53