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Furrowed Mud Crab
Panopeus occidentalis
Panopeus occidentalis, the furrowed mud crab, is a true crab belonging to the infraorder Brachyura. It is native to the western Atlantic Ocean, its range extending from North Carolina to Florida, the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico, the West Indies, the Guianas and Brazil, as far south as the state of Santa Catarina. Its depth range is down to about 20 m (66 ft).
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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 295325.