Guinusia chabrus
Appearance
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Order: | Decapoda |
Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
Infraorder: | Brachyura |
Family: | Plagusiidae |
Genus: | Guinusia |
Species: | G. chabrus
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The red rock crab, Guinusia chabrus, is a marine large-eyed crab of the family Plagusiidae.[1] It is found in the southern Indian and southern Pacific Oceans, including South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and Chile.[2]
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.[3]
Distribution
Southern Africa: Luderitz to Sodwana Bay, Subtidal to at least 100m.[3]
Ecology
Common on reefs. Often seen in crevices or hiding under other benthic organisms. Scavenger.[3]
With Haliotis midae it makes up the favoured diet of Octopus vulgaris in False Bay, South Africa.[4]
References
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ a b c Jones, Georgina. A field guide to the marine animals of the Cape Peninsula. SURG, Cape Town, 2008. It is also found in the intertidal zone, such as a rocky shore environment in New Zealand and Australia 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