Pugettia gracilis Graceful Kelp Crab

Pugettia gracilis is commonly referred to as Graceful Kelp Crab. Difficulty in the aquarium: Not suitable for aquarium keeping. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

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Scientific:: Pugettia gracilis
German:: Grazile Kelp-Krabbe, Anmutige Kelp-Krabbe
English:: Graceful Kelp Crab

Category:: Granchi

Family tree:: Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Decapoda (Order) > Epialtidae (Family) > Pugettia (Genus) > gracilis (Species)
Initial determination:: Dana, 1851

Occurrence:: Alaska East Coast USA, Aleutian Islands, Canada Eastern Pacific, Gulf of Mexico, North Pacific (Ocean), USA
Marine Zone:: Subtidal, sublittoral, infralittoral, deep zone of the oceans from the lower limit of the intertidal zone (intertidal) to the shelf edge at about 200 m water depth. neritic.
Sea depth:: 1 - 140 Meter
Size:: 0.79" - 1.57" (2,8cm - 4cm)
Temperature:: 46.4 °F - 68 °F (8°C - 20°C)
Food:: Algae (Algivore)
Difficulty:: Not suitable for aquarium keeping
Offspring:: Not available as offspring
Toxicity:: Toxic hazard unknown

CITES:

Not evaluated

Red List:

Not evaluated (NE)

Related species at Catalog of Life:

Pugettia dalli
Pugettia elongata
Pugettia foliatus
Pugettia gracilis
Grazile Kelp-Krabbe, Anmutige Kelp-Krabbe
Pugettia hubbsi
Pugettia incisa
Pugettia intermedia
Kelp-Krabbe
Pugettia kagoshimensis
Pugettia leytensis
Pugettia marissinica
Pugettia mindanaoensis
Pugettia minor
Pugettia nipponensis
Pugettia pellucens
Pugettia producta
Nördliche Kelp-Krabbe
Pugettia quadridens
Pugettia richii
Kryptische Kelp-Krabbe
Pugettia similis
Pugettia tasmanensis
Pugettia venetiae

More related species in this lexicon:

Author:: Meerwasser-Lexikon Team
Publisher:: Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:: 2023-04-06 19:30:54
Last edit:: 2023-04-06 19:42:40

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Pugettia gracilis Dana, 1851

Pugettia gracilis, commonly known as the graceful kelp crab,[2] is a species of small crab in the family Epialtidae. It lives among forests of kelp on the Pacific coast of North America.

Synonymised names:
Pugettia lordii Spence Bate, 1865 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

External links

Invertebrates of the Salish Sea (en). Abgerufen am 06.04.2023.
National Library of Medicine (en). Abgerufen am 06.04.2023.
WoRMS (en). Abgerufen am 06.04.2023.

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