Japanese shore crab

Japanese shore crab

Taxobox | name = Japanese shore crab


image_width = 225px
status = NE
status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
subphylum = Crustacea
classis = Malacostraca
ordo = Decapoda
infraordo = Brachyura
familia = Varunidae
genus = "Hemigraspus"
species = "H. sanguineus"
binomial = "Hemigraspus sanguineus"
binomial_authority = (De Haan, 1853) [ITIS|ID=621740|taxon="Hemigrapsus sanguineus"]
The Japanese shore crab ("Hemigrapsus sanguineus") has a square-like carapace with three marginal teeth toward the front of each side of the carapace and alternating light and dark bands on the legs. It reaches 2–3 inches in width. Its native range is from southern Russia to Hong Kong. During the 1990s, this invasive species became increasingly common from Portland, Maine to North Carolina [cite web |url=http://www.iisgcp.org/EXOTICSP/Japanese_Shore_Crab.htm |title=Japanese Shore Crab ("Hemigrapsus sanguineus") |author=Jessica D. Sharon |publisher=Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant College Program |accessdate=2007-08-26] .

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