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Shore and marsh crabs
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Shore and marsh crabs

Grapsoidea

The Grapsoidea are a superfamily of crabs; they are well known and contain many taxa which are terrestrial (land-living), semiterrestrial (taking to the sea only for reproduction), or limnic (living in fresh water). Another well-known member with a more conventional lifestyle is the Chinese mitten crab, Eriocheir sinensis.

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9 branches of this superfamily, most-observed first

Shore Crabs

familyGrapsidae

Varunid crabs

familyVarunidae

Sesarmid Marsh Crabs

familySesarmidae

Rafting Crabs

familyPlagusiidae

Flat Crabs

familyPercnidae

Delicate shore crabs

familyLeptograpsodidae

engraved crabs

familyGlyptograpsidae

Epigrapsidae

familyEpigrapsidae

Strange Shore Crabs

familyXenograpsidae

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 47191.