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Grapsus grapsus (Sally Lightfoot crab)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Grapsus grapsus is one of the most common crabs along the western coast of the Americas. It is known variously as, "red rock crab", "abuete negro", and along with crabs such as Percnon gibbesi as, "Sally Lightfoot".
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Infraspecies

Grapsus grapsus grapsus
Grapsus grapsus tenuicrustatus

Ecosystems

Prey / Diet

Spirobranchus giganteus (Christmas tree worm)[1]

Predators

Bodianus diplotaenia (Pacific hogfish)[2]
Cinclodes nigrofumosus (Chilean Seaside Cinclodes)[3]
Octopus briareus (Caribbean reef octopus)[4]
Octopus mimus[5]

External References

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.
♦ 2A test of the Menge-Sutherland model of community organization in a tropical rocky intertidal food web, Bruce A. Menge, Jane Lubchenco, Stephen D. Gaines, Linda R. Ashkenas, Oecologia (Berlin) (1986) 71: 75-89
♦ 3Terrestrial birds living on marine environments: does dietary composition of Cinclodes nigrofumosus (Passeriformes: Furnariidae) predict their osmotic load?, PABLO SABAT, JOSÉ M. FARIÑA & MAURICIO SOTO-GAMBOA, Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 76: 335-343, 2003
♦ 4CephBase - Cephalopod (Octopus, Squid, Cuttlefish and Nautilus) Database
♦ 5Feeding dynamics of Octopus mimus (Mollusca: Cephalopoda) in northern Chile waters, T. Cortez, B.G. Castro, A. Guerra, Marine Biology (1995) 123: 497-503
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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