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#4556 · 🦀 crabs & other crustaceans

Mottled Lightfoot Crab

🇳🇱 Witgestreepte Rotskrab ·Grapsus albolineatus

🦀 Crabs & other crustaceans 📍 outside Europe
Mottled Lightfoot Crab, photo 1 of 7
1/7 © grinnin · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

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base stats

  • NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
  • worldwide 6,860iNaturalist observations

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

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.

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