Marbled Swimming Crab

Macropipus est un genre de crabes de la famille des Polybiidae (ou des Macropipidae selon les classifications). Il comporte quatre espèces actuelles et deux fossiles. Historique et dénomination Le genre a été décrit par le zoologiste Nicolò Prestandrea en 1833.

Polybius marmoreus, sometimes known as the marbled swimming crab, is a species of crab found in the northern Atlantic Ocean, including the Mediterranean Sea and North Sea. It may be found on sand and gravel in the sublittoral and lower littoral zones, down to a depth of 84 metres (276 ft), from the Azores and the Alboran Sea (the westernmost section of the Mediterranean Sea) as far north as the Shetland Islands. It reaches a carapace length of 35 millimetres (1.

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