Sesarma reticulatum

Taxobox
name = Heavy marsh crab
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
subphylum = Crustacea
classis = Malacostraca
ordo = Decapoda
subordo = Pleocyemata
infraordo = Brachyura
familia = Grapsidae
genus = "Sesarma"
species = "S. reticulatum"
binomial = "Sesarma reticulatum"
binomial_authority = (Dana, 1851)

The Heavy marsh crab ("Sesarma reticulatum") is a crab species native to the salt marshes of Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

Mark Bertness, chairman of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Brown University, has blamed their overpopulation, due to a loss of predators, for the decline in cordgrass found in the marshes.cite web
url=http://www.boston.com/news/science/articles/2007/11/19/cape_salt_marsh_decline_linked_to_native_crab/
title=Cape salt marsh decline linked to native crab
first=Richard C.
last=Lewis
date=2007-11-19]

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