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Cardisoma crassum

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Cardisoma crassum, known as the mouthless crab, is a speciesofterrestrial crab found in the coastal tropical eastern Pacific from Baja CaliforniatoPeru.^[2] It has a purplish-blue shell, red legs and white main pincer. Cardisoma crassum is common among mangrove roots, where it builds its burrow. It also occasionally occurs on the driest part of the channel banks and flats".^[2]

Mouthless crab

Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Suborder:	Pleocyemata
Infraorder:	Brachyura
Family:	Gecarcinidae
Genus:	Cardisoma
Species:	C. crassum
Binomial name
*Cardisoma crassum* Smith, 1870^[1]
Synonyms
Cardisoma latimanus Lockington, 1877^[1]

References

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^ ^a ^b Peter K. L. Ng; Danièle Guinot & Peter J. F. Davie (2008). "Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 17: 1–286. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-06.

^ ^a ^b Michel E. Hendrickx (1984). "Studies of the coastal marine fauna of southern Sinaloa, Mexico. II. The decapod crustaceans of Estero el Verde". Anales del Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología. 11: 23–48. Archived from the original on 2008-12-04.

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