Is it venomous or poisonous?
We have no record of Pacific Mottled Shore Crab being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
- Pachygrapsus transversus
- Pachygrapsus laevimanus
- Metopograpsus thukuhar
- Pachygrapsus plicatus
- Metopograpsus quadridentatus
- Pachygrapsus minutus
Classification
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Malacostraca
- Order
- Decapoda
- Family
- Grapsidae
- Genus
- Pachygrapsus
- Species
- Pachygrapsus socius
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