The Nature LibraryEN·ES
iNat·776484SpeciesAnimalia124 field observations
  1. Animals
  2. ›Arthropods
  3. ›Crustaceans
  4. ›Typical Crustaceans
  5. ›Malacostracans
  6. ›Decapods, Isopods, and allies
  7. ›Decapods and Krill
  8. ›Decapods
  9. ›Crabs, Lobsters, Shrimps, and Allies
  10. ›Anomurans
  11. ›Squat Lobsters and Porcelain Crabs
  12. ›Porcelain Crabs
  13. ›Petrolisthes
Petrolisthes laevigatus
Plate 1 of 2. (c) Matías Berrocal, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Matías Berrocal · via iNaturalist

Petrolisthes laevigatus

Petrolisthes laevigatus is a species of porcelain crab found in Chile and Peru. Its carapace width is up to 2.5 cm. P. laevigatus lives under rocks in the middle and lower intertidal area. It feeds by filtering zooplankton.

Continue reading on Wikipedia
§·

Where it lives

Recorded sightings

—

geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.

Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.

§·

In the stacks

Searching the stacks…

Every page naming Petrolisthes laevigatus in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →

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 776484.