Animalia > Arthropoda > Malacostraca > Decapoda > Grapsidae > Grapsus > Grapsus tenuicrustatus

Grapsus tenuicrustatus (Natal lightfoot crab; `a`ama)

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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  70 grams
Speed [1]  3.132 MPH (1.4 m/s)

Predators

Gymnothorax pictus (Peppered moray)[2]

External References

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Running in the surf: hydrodynamics of the shore crab Grapsus tenuicrustatus, Marlene M. Martinez, The Journal of Experimental Biology 204, 3097–3112 (2001)
♦ 2Diurnal, land-based predation on shore crabs by moray eels in the Chagos Archipelago, N. A. J. Graham, S. J. Purkis, A. Harris, Coral Reefs (2009) 28:397
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