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Panopeus herbstii (Atlantic mud crab)

Synonyms: Eupanopeus herbstii; Eupanopeus herbstii herbstii; Eurypanopeus herbstii var. minax; Galene hawaiensis; Panopeus herbstii f. typica

Wikipedia Abstract

Panopeus herbstii (the black-fingered mud crab, black-clawed mud crab, Atlantic mud crab or sometimes common mud crab) is a true crab, belonging to the infraorder Brachyura, and is the largest of the mud crabs. P. herbstii is small, growing to about 4 cm, with black-tipped claws of unequal size. P. herbstii has a strong exoskeleton, with very thick and strong claws. The shell is a dull gray and brown color.
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Prey / Diet

Predators

Aythya marila (Greater Scaup)[4]
Centropristis philadelphica (Sea bass)[4]
Octopus briareus (Caribbean reef octopus)[5]
Opsanus tau (Oyster toadfish)[6]
Sciaenops ocellatus (Spotted bass)[4]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Whitefleet-Smith, Laura A., and Juliana M. Harding. "Size selectivity by Atlantic mud crabs Panopeus herbstii (Milne Edwards) feeding on ivory barnacles Balanus eburneus (Gould)." Journal of Shellfish Research 33.1 (2014): 25+. Academic OneFile. Web. 14 July 2014.
♦ 2Predation by the Black-clawed Mud Crab, Panopeus herbstii, in Mid-Atlantic Salt Marshes: Further Evidence for Top-down Control of Marsh Grass Production, BRIAN REED SILLIMAN, CRAIG A. LAYMAN, KANE GEYER, and J. C. ZIEMAN, Estuaries Vol. 27, No. 2, p. 188–196, April 2004
♦ 3Predator-prey relationships between the mud crab Panopeus herbstii, the blue crab, Callinectes sapidus and the Atlantic ribbed mussel Geukensia demissa, R. Seed, Estuarine and Coastal Marine Science, Volume 11, Issue 4, October 1980, Pages 445-458
♦ 4Jorrit 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.
♦ 5CephBase - Cephalopod (Octopus, Squid, Cuttlefish and Nautilus) Database
♦ 6HABITAT COMPLEXITY DISRUPTS PREDATOR–PREY INTERACTIONS BUT NOT THE TROPHIC CASCADE ON OYSTER REEFS, JONATHAN H. GRABOWSKI, Ecology, 85(4), 2004, pp. 995–1004
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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