Cardisoma crassum
| Mouthless crab | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Brachyura |
| Family: | Gecarcinidae |
| Genus: | Cardisoma |
| Species: | C. crassum
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| Binomial name | |
| Cardisoma crassum | |
Cardisoma crassum, known as the mouthless crab, is a species of terrestrial crab found in the coastal tropical eastern Pacific from Baja California to Peru.[2] It has a purplish-blue shell, red legs and white main pincer. Cardisoma crassum is common among mangrove roots, where it builds its burrow. Burrows dug by Cardisoma crassum are complex, often over 2 meters deep and located in high areas of mangroves with a water reservoir at the bottom of the burrow.[3] It also occasionally occurs on the driest part of the channel banks and flats".[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Ng, Peter K. L.; Guinot, Danièle; Davie, Peter J. F. (January 2008). "Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 17: 1–286. Archived (PDF) from the original on 6 June 2011. Retrieved 8 June 2011 – via the National University of Singapore.
- ^ a b Michel E. Hendrickx (1984). "Studies of the coastal marine fauna of southern Sinaloa, Mexico. II. The decapod crustaceans of Estero el Verde". Anales del Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología. 11: 23–48. Archived from the original on 2008-12-04.
- ^ Lombardo, Roberto C.; Rojas, Maryory (2022). "Burrow fidelity in the blue crab, Cardisoma crassum Smith, 1870 (Brachyura: Gecarcinidae) from the Ponuga River, Veraguas, Panama". Nauplius. 30. doi:10.1590/2358-2936e2022033. ISSN 2358-2936.
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