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Description
- 📏 up to 8 cm
- 🌊 rocks splashed by waves
The thin-shelled rock crab is red-brown, flat and very agile. It lives on rocks sprayed by the waves, which it climbs with ease, and scuttles off at the slightest danger, slipping into crevices. It grazes on algae.
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Its legs are adapted to grip wet rock: it is hard to catch by hand.
Source: Biology of the species
The Tahitian name of this species is not yet confirmed in our sources.
Tahitian names: sources being verified. French name: Crabe des rochers.
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