#4538 · 🦀 crabs & other crustaceans

Sally Lightfoot Crab

Grapsus grapsus

🦀 Crabs & other crustaceans 📍 outside Europe

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © John Sullivan · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Ginni Callahan · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © David Bell · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Alexander Harman, Ph. D. · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Wayne Fidler · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Andy Lazere · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Galápagos Islands, Ecuador:© Carrie Seltzer · CC BY 4.0
8. Santa Cruz, Équateur:© Aloys PICHARD · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Galapagos Islands:© Mike Leveille · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. 39XQ+87H Malecón San Cristobal, Puerto Baquerizo Moreno, Ecuador:© Margarita Lankford · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

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 ".

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 17,512iNaturalist 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.
17,512 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).