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Created 4/5/2013

Family Grapsidae

HAWAII

Plagusia squamosa

Ft. Kamehameha, Oahu, 1 foot

 

Cargo Pier, Midway Atoll, 1 foot

Cargo Pier, Midway Atoll, 1 foot

SCALY ROCK CRAB

Common just below the waterline on rocky shores.  Carapace width attains 2 inches.  Erroneously reported from Hawaii as Plagusia depressa tuberculata.  Hawaii & the Indo-Pacific.