Guinusia chabrus
| Guinusia chabrus | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Crustacea |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Infraorder: | Brachyura |
| Family: | Plagusiidae |
| Genus: | Guinusia |
| Species: | G. chabrus |
| Binomial name | |
| Guinusia chabrus[1] (Linnaeus, 1758) [2] | |
| Synonyms | |
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For other uses of "red rock crab", see Red rock crab (disambiguation).
The red rock crab, Guinusia chabrus, is a marine large-eyed crab of the family Plagusiidae.[2] It is found in the southern Indian and southern Pacific Oceans, including South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and Chile.[3]
Description
A sturdy square bodied crab with a smooth dark red-brown carapace and yellow longitudinal ridges on the legs, yellow knobs on the pincers. There may be four white spots on the carapace in a roughly semicircular pattern.[4]
Distribution
Southern Africa: Luderitz to Sodwana Bay, Subtidal to at least 100m.[4]
Ecology
Common on reefs. Often seen in crevices or hiding under other benthic organisms. Scavenger.[4]
With Haliotis midae it makes up the favoured diet of Octopus vulgaris in False Bay, South Africa.[5]
References
- ↑ Peter Davie (2012). "Guinusia chabrus (Linnaeus, 1758)". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved December 11, 2012.
- 1 2 Peter K. L. Ng, Danièle Guinot & Peter J. F. Davie (2008). "Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 17: 1–286.
- ↑ "Plagusia chabrus, red rock crab, (Plagusia capensis)". SeaFriends. Retrieved June 5, 2009.
- 1 2 3 Jones, Georgina. A field guide to the marine animals of the Cape Peninsula. SURG, Cape Town, 2008. ISBN 978-0-620-41639-9
- ↑ C. D. Smith (2003). "Diet of Octopus vulgaris in False Bay, South Africa". Marine Biology 143 (6): 1127–1133. doi:10.1007/s00227-003-1144-2.
External links
Media related to Plagusia chabrus at Wikimedia Commons- Closeup image on Flickr
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