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Thin-Shelled Rock Crab

Grapsus tenuicrustatus

Photo by SargonR
Published on Project Noah
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Description:

Rock Crab, or Swimming Crab, clinging to the side of a near vertical rock face above one of the tide pools near Shark's Cove, Oahu, Hawaii.

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Thin-shelled Rock Crab, Grapsus tenuicrustatus

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