#4512 · 🦀 crabs & other crustaceans
East Atlantic Sally Lightfoot Crab
Grapsus adscensionis
🦀 Crabs & other crustaceans 📍 in Europe, not in NL
📍 Santa Cruz de Tenerife, ES-CN, ES
📍 Horta, Açores, Portugal
📍 Vila do Porto, Azores, Portugal
📍 São Miguel Island, Ponta Delgada, Azores, PT
📍 Las Palmas, ES-CN, ES
📍 Porto Moniz, Portugal
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © xofred · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © A Emmerson · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © A Emmerson · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © redhat · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. Santa Cruz de Tenerife, ES-CN, ES:© max_hof_mann · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. Horta, Açores, Portugal:© Duarte Frade · CC BY 4.0
- 7. Vila do Porto, Azores, Portugal:© Carmen B. de los Santos · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 8. São Miguel Island, Ponta Delgada, Azores, PT:© kleiber · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Las Palmas, ES-CN, ES:© no rights reserved · CC0
- 10. Porto Moniz, Portugal:© Donald Davesne · CC BY 4.0
what is it?
Grapsus adscensionis is a species of crab found in the eastern Atlantic Ocean.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 5,495 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- East Atlantic Sally Lightfoot Crab
- scientific name
- Grapsus adscensionis
- class
- Malacostraca
- order
- Decapoda
- family
- Grapsidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 747
- sightings worldwide
- 5,495
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
relatives· Grapsidae
#4533 📷 10Striped Shore Crab
Pachygrapsus crassipes
🌍 35.5k seen
#4538 📷 10Sally Lightfoot Crab
Grapsus grapsus
🌍 17.5k seen
#4506 📷 8Marbled Crab
🇳🇱 Gemarmerde rotskrab
Pachygrapsus marmoratus
🌍 14.8k seen
#4550 📷 9Thin-shelled Rock Crab
🇳🇱 Groene Rotskrab
Grapsus tenuicrustatus
🌍 8.3k seen
#4555 📷 10Purple Rock Crab
Leptograpsus variegatus
🌍 6.9k seen
#4556 📷 7Mottled Lightfoot Crab
🇳🇱 Witgestreepte Rotskrab
Grapsus albolineatus
🌍 6.9k seen
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 67578, Wikidata Q13647516, GBIF 4382864, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.