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Pachygrapsus crassipes

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Hunting strategies will differ based on their habitat. On rocky shores they will hunt more often than they forage, and under the cover of night, whilst in intertidal pools they will focus more on herbivory even during daytime hours. Intraspecies conflicts occur more out of defense in close captivity
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with green stripes. Its carapace is square and can reach 4 to 5 cm in size. The claws are red/purple with a mottled and striped pattern on the upper surface, and whitish-grayish on the lower surface, while its legs are purple and green with a similar mottled appearance.
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It will spend over half of its time on land. It will purposely submerge to wet its gills but can sustain itself on land for up to ~70 hours. They enjoy hiding in small crevices within rock, but will emerge at night when there is less danger of predation. This
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out of water, whilst in water it occurs more out of aggression. Over time a social hierarchy for the species within its habitat will form.
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Bryan J. Cassone; Elizabeth G. Boulding (2006). "Genetic structure and phylogeography of the lined shore crab,
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is isolated with a divergence time from the eastern Pacific population estimated between 0.8 and 1.2 Mya.
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Lord, Joshua (April 2017). "Juvenile mussel and abalone predation by the lined shore crab
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found on both rocky and hard-mud soft seashores of the northeastern and northwestern
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Bovbjerg, Richard V. (October 1960). "Behavioral ecology of the crab,
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Typically, this crab will have a brown/purple or black
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Scientific classification
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Eukaryota
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Pleocyemata
Brachyura
Grapsidae
Pachygrapsus
Binomial name
Randall
crab
Pacific Ocean
Ensenada, Baja California
Mexico
Bamfield
Vancouver Island
Korea
Japan
carapace
opportunistic predator's
green algae
red algae
brown seaweed
diatoms
worms
mussels

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