Sighting 3369889
Purple Rock Crab at Barragga Bay, NSW
Identification history
| Leptograpsus variegatus | 4 May 2018 | offshore | ||
| Leptograpsus variegatus | 12 Jan 2017 | Jennyncmg | ||
| Unidentified | 11 Jan 2017 | narelle |
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3 comments
LizAllen
wrote:
12 Feb 2017
I would like to see the large front claws ,they are usually purple in colour if it is Leptograpsus variegatus.
Maybe you could check our species lists and see if you can see something similar to your sighting narelle ?
Maybe you could check our species lists and see if you can see something similar to your sighting narelle ?
narelle
wrote:
17 Feb 2017
Hi Liz, I checked the species lists and yes this crab did look like the Leptograpsus variegatus with the large front claws.
narelle
wrote:
17 Feb 2017
Next time I will take more notice. Most of the crabs I see around here are an olive green like this one. And then there are others that are more solid and more reddish. I will see if I can get a photo of one of those.
Location information
- Coordinates 150.061518-36.507713
- Maps Four Winds Bioblitz Reference Sites
- Places Barragga Bay, NSW
Sighting information
- 16 - 100 Abundance
- 10 Jan 2017 12:59 PM Recorded on
- narelle Recorded by
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Collections
Marine Invertebrates Crabs, Prawns, Barnacles & allies (Crustacea) Crabs (Decapoda, Brachyura) narelle
Species information
- Leptograpsus variegatus Scientific name
- Purple Rock Crab Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- -4.73m to 38.43m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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