Lined Shore Crab (Pachygrapsus crassipes)

About Lined Shore Crab (Pachygrapsus crassipes)

• Kingdom: Animals
• Phylum: Arthropods
• Class: Malacostracans
• Order: Crabs
• Family: Shore Crabs

Pachygrapsus crassipes, the striped shore crab or lined shore crab, is a small crab found on both rocky and hard-mud soft seashores of the northeastern and northwestern Pacific Ocean. In North America, this species occurs from central Oregon, south through California to near Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico. There is an isolated population with a wide range disjunction at Bamfield on Vancouver Island, Canada. The western Pacific population, including both Korea and Japan is isolated with a divergence time from the eastern Pacific population estimated between 0.8 and 1.2 Mya.

Source: Wikipedia