#4517 · 🦀 crabs & other crustaceans
Nimble Spray Crab
🇳🇱 Gestreepte rotskrab ·Percnon gibbesi
📍 Ulica Valsaline, Pula, 18, HR
📍 Pula, HR-IS, HR
📍 Las Palmas, ES-CN, ES
📍 Ionian Islands, Peloponnese, Western Greece and the Ionian Islands, Greece
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Paolo Mazzei · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © terence zahner · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Brice C. · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Silke Baron · CC BY 4.0
- 5. © Golfopolikayak · CC BY 4.0
- 6. © Dennis Rabeling · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 7. Ulica Valsaline, Pula, 18, HR:© sandra_bracun · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Pula, HR-IS, HR:© Tobias Gratzer · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Las Palmas, ES-CN, ES:© Dennis Rabeling · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 10. Ionian Islands, Peloponnese, Western Greece and the Ionian Islands, Greece:© Falk Viczian Solarboot-Projekte gGmbH · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Percnon gibbesi is a species of crab. It is one of at least two species commonly called "Sally Lightfoot" (the other being the semi-terrestrial Grapsus grapsus from the Pacific coast of the Americas), and is also referred to as the nimble spray crab or urchin crab . It has been described as "the most invasive decapod species to enter the Mediterranean".
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.
- 2,757 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Henri Milne-Edwards in 1853 (173 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Nimble Spray Crab
- Nederlands
- Gestreepte rotskrab
- scientific name
- Percnon gibbesi
- class
- Malacostraca
- order
- Decapoda
- family
- Percnidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 1,415
- sightings worldwide
- 2,757
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1853 by Henri Milne-Edwards
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 61372, Wikidata Q1439666, GBIF 2225783, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.