Animalia > Arthropoda > Malacostraca > Decapoda > Porcellanidae > Porcellana > Porcellana sayana

Porcellana sayana (spotted porcelain crab)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Porcellana sayana is a species of porcelain crab that lives in the western Atlantic Ocean, often as a commensal of hermit crabs. It is red with white spots, and has a characteristic bulge behind each claw.
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Predators

Bodianus rufus (Spanish hogfish)[1]
Gadus morhua (rock cod)[2]
Sciades proops (Marine catfish)[2]
Scomber scombrus (Split)[2]

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Citations

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♦ 1Food Habits of Reef Fishes of the West Indies, John E. Randall, Stud. Trop. Oceanogr. 5, 665–847 (1967)
♦ 2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0