Plagusia depressa tuberculata

Taxobox
name = Red rock crab
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
subphylum = Crustacea
classis = Malacostraca
ordo = Decapoda
subordo = Pleocyemata
infraordo = Brachyura
familia = Grapsidae
genus = "Plagusia"
species = "P. depressa"
subspecies = "P. d. tuberculata"
trinomial = "Plagusia depressa tuberculata "
trinomial_authority = (Lamarck, 1818)

"Plagusia depressa tuberculata" is a marine crab of the family Grapsidae. It is found in tropical Indo-Pacific oceans, specimens occasionally drifting as far south as New Zealand, and as far north as Japan, clinging to driftwood.

"Plagusia depressa tuberculata" is similar to "Plagusia capense" with its flat shape, and slightly convex back covered with flattened tubercles. Its colour is reddish with darker blood-red spots and speckles.

External links

* [http://www.seafriends.org.nz/enviro/crust/grapsida.htm SeaFriends]
* [http://www.springerlink.com/content/m0445v881x6260v2/ First occurrence in Japan]

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