#4556 · 🦀 crabs & other crustaceans
Mottled Lightfoot Crab
🇳🇱 Witgestreepte Rotskrab ·Grapsus albolineatus
🦀 Crabs & other crustaceans 📍 outside Europe
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what is it?
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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.
- 6,860 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Pierre André Latreille in 1812 (214 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Mottled Lightfoot Crab
- Nederlands
- Witgestreepte Rotskrab
- scientific name
- Grapsus albolineatus
- class
- Malacostraca
- order
- Decapoda
- family
- Grapsidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 6,860
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1812 by Pierre André Latreille
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
#4512 📷 10East Atlantic Sally Lightfoot Crab
Grapsus adscensionis
🌍 5.5k seen
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 354596, Wikidata Q6495491, GBIF 2225820, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.
