mottled purse crab

Persephona mediterranea

Classification

Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Family: Leucosiidae

Persephona mediterranea, the mottled purse crab, is a species of true crab in the family Leucosiidae. Description Similar to other crabs in the genus Persephona, the mottled purse crab has a fat, round carapace. The anterior end of the carapace is short and squared off with three points.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

United States of America · 58Brazil · 12Uruguay · 9Mexico · 3

Sources and credits

Photo(c) Alison Northup, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY DescriptionPersephona mediterranea, Wikipedia contributors

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