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Eriphia verrucosa
Eriphia verrucosa
Cangrejo Moruno
Photographer: Oscar Sanisidro

ID: 0000 0000 0903 0169 (2003-09-09)

Copyright © 2003 O.Sanisidro

 
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  • date of photo  Apr 18, 2003
  • location   Playa de los Olivos (Valencia, Spain)
  • family Xanthidae
  • order Decapoda
  • class Malacostraca
  • habitat  Shallow waters along rocky coasts living among stones and seaweeds, to 1-15 m depths. Favorite biotop: stony grounds.
  • notes   E. verrucosa (Holthuis a. Gottlieb 1958). Present throughout the Mediterranean Sea, also in the eastern Atlantic from the southern coast of Brittany to Mauritania and the Azores. Planktonic larvae with 4 metamorphosis stages from zoe to megalope. Eats molluscs, polychaetes.
  • keywords: crab, mediterranean, decapoda
  • camera   Sony DSC S85
  • contributor's ID #  Eriphia verrucosa andando
  • photo category: Animal - Invertebrate-Other

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  • common names   Cangrejo Moruno (photographer)
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