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Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Family: Grapsidae shore, marsh, and talon crabs

Genus: Planes

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Planes cyaneus
[Flotsam crab]
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Planes major
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Planes marinus
[Drifter crab]

Bourjon, Philippe

Eastern Atlantic Ocean an

Planes minutus(Linnaeus, 1758)

Photo by Bourjon, Philippe
 
Planes minutus
[Gulfweed crab]


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