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#4533 · 🦀 crabs & other crustaceans

Striped Shore Crab

Pachygrapsus crassipes

🦀 Crabs & other crustaceans 📍 outside Europe
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
  1. 1. © Nature Ali · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
  2. 2. © Jerry Kirkhart · CC BY 4.0
  3. 3. © Jerry Kirkhart · CC BY 4.0
  4. 4. © J. Maughn · CC BY-NC 4.0
  5. 5. © Mike Gigliotti · CC BY-NC 4.0
  6. 6. © Peter D. Tillman · CC BY-SA 4.0
  7. 7. © Don Loarie · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
  8. 8. © Jerry Kirkhart · CC BY 4.0
  9. 9. © Franco Folini · CC BY-SA 4.0
  10. 10. © Franco Folini · CC BY-SA 4.0
Striped Shore Crab, photo 1 of 10
1/10 © Nature Ali · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

what is it?

Pachygrapsus crassipes , known as the striped shore crab or lined shore crab , is a small crab found on rocky and hard-mud shores of the west coast of North to Central America and in the western Pacific in Korea and Japan. In North America, its range spans from Vancouver Island to Baja California, Mexico. 2 Mya. Typically, this crab...

base stats

  • NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
  • worldwide 35,537iNaturalist 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.
  • 35,537 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
  • Scientifically named by John Witt Randall in 1840 (186 years ago).

fact sheet

English
Striped Shore Crab
scientific name
Pachygrapsus crassipes
class
Malacostraca
order
Decapoda
family
Grapsidae
sightings in NL
0
sightings worldwide
35,537
GBIF records in NL
0
weight
—
length
—
lifespan
—
named
1840 by John Witt Randall

relatives· Grapsidae

Sources: iNaturalist taxon 47188, Wikidata Q1058143, GBIF 2225812, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.

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