Animalia > Arthropoda > Malacostraca > Decapoda > Pinnotheridae > Scleroplax > Scleroplax granulata

Scleroplax granulata (burrow pea crab)

Synonyms: Scleroplax granulatus

Wikipedia Abstract

Scleroplax granulata is a species of crab in the monotypic genus Scleroplax. It was first described by Mary J. Rathbun in a paper dated 1893 but only published in 1894. Scleroplax lives as a commensal of various burrowing animals including the mud shrimp Neotrypaea californiensis, N. gigas, Upogebia pugettensis and U. macginiteorum, and the echiuran worm Urechis caupo (known as the "fat innkeeper"), and occurs from Vancouver Island, British Columbia to Punta Abreojos, Mulegé, Baja California Sur, Mexico.
View Wikipedia Record: Scleroplax granulata

Predators

Sebastes caurinus (Copper rockfish)[1]

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Jorrit 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.
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
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