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Flat Porcelain Crab
Petrolisthes cinctipes
Petrolisthes cinctipes, commonly known as the flat porcelain crab, is an abundant species of marine porcelain crab found in the upper and middle intertidal, primarily in mussel beds, along the eastern Pacific Ocean, from British Columbia to Mexico. This species was first described by John Witt Randall in 1840.
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Description
P. cinctipes has a flat carapace up to 24 mm in diameter. It is generally a dark blue-brown color, and more starkly blue around the time of molting. The species name cinctipes is derived from the Latin for "banded legs," since the legs of this species are blue banded with white. Unlike other sympatric species of Petrolisthes, this species has dark red antennal flagellae, and a distinct lobe on the inner margin of its carpus, which has non-parallel margins.
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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 53620.