Percnon gibbesi | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Order: | Decapoda |
Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
Infraorder: | Brachyura |
Family: | Percnidae |
Genus: | Percnon |
Species: | P. gibbesi
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Binomial name | |
Percnon gibbesi | |
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Percnon gibbesi is a species of crab.[1][3] It is one of at least two species commonly called Sally Lightfoot (the other being the semi-terrestrial Grapsus grapsus from the Pacific coast of the Americas), and is also referred to as the nimble spray crab[2] or urchin crab.[4] It has been described as "the most invasive decapod species to enter the Mediterranean".[3]
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