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Arenaeus
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Arenaeus

Arenaeus is a genus of swimming crabs in the family Portunidae. These two species belong to the genus Arenaeus:

Arenaeus cribrarius (Lamarck, 1818)

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2 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Speckled Swimming Crab

speciesArenaeus cribrarius

Pacific Speckled Crab

speciesArenaeus mexicanus

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 122199.