Planes minutus is a species of pelagic crab that lives in the North Atlantic Ocean. It is typically less than 10 mm (0.4 in) long across the back, and is variable in colouration, to match its background. It may have been the crab seen by Christopher Columbus on Sargassum weed in the Sargasso Sea in 1492.
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Is it venomous or poisonous?
We have no record of Gulfweed 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
- Cyclograpsus integer
- Brachynotus sexdentatus
- Cyclograpsus cinereus
- Cyclograpsus audouinii
- Cyclograpsus punctatus
- Pinnotheres pisum
Classification
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Malacostraca
- Order
- Decapoda
- Family
- Grapsidae
- Genus
- Planes
- Species
- Planes minutus
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