Guinusia chabrus
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Brachyura |
| Family: | Plagusiidae |
| Genus: | Guinusia |
| Species: | G. chabrus
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| Guinusia chabrus | |
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The red rock crab (Guinusia chabrus) is a marine large-eyed crab of the family Plagusiidae.[1] It is found in the southern Indian and southern Pacific Oceans, including South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and Chile.[2]
Classification
Guinusia chabrus is placed in the family Plagusiidae, and was first described as Cancer chabrus by Carl Linnaeus in 1758. Until 2010, it was known as Plagusia chabrus, but then a new genus was erected, named Guinusia in honour of Danièle Guinot.[3]
Description
A sturdy square bodied crab with a smooth dark red-brown carapace and yellow longitudinal ridges on the legs, yellow knobs on the pincers. There may be four white spots on the carapace in a roughly semicircular pattern.[4]
Distribution
Southern Africa: Luderitz to Sodwana Bay, Subtidal to at least 100m.[4]
Ecology
Common on reefs. Often seen in crevices or hiding under other benthic organisms. Scavenger.[4]
With Haliotis midae it makes up the favoured diet of Octopus vulgaris in False Bay, South Africa.[5]
References
- ^ a b Peter K. L. Ng; Danièle Guinot & Peter J. F. Davie (2008). "Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 17: 1–286. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-06. Retrieved 2010-01-12.
- ^ "Plagusia chabrus, red rock crab, (Plagusia capensis)". SeaFriends. Retrieved June 5, 2009.
- ^ Schubart, Christoph D.; Cuesta, José A. (2010). "Phylogenetic relationships of the Plagusiidae Dana, 1851 (Brachyura), with description of a new genus and recognition of Percnidae Števčić, 2005, as an independent family". Studies on Brachyura.
- ^ a b c Jones, Georgina. A field guide to the marine animals of the Cape Peninsula. SURG, Cape Town, 2008. It is also found in the intertidal zone, such as a rocky shore environment in New Zealand and Australia ISBN 978-0-620-41639-9
- ^ C. D. Smith (2003). "Diet of Octopus vulgaris in False Bay, South Africa". Marine Biology. 143 (6): 1127–1133. Bibcode:2003MarBi.143.1127S. doi:10.1007/s00227-003-1144-2.
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