Rocky Shores of Algoa Bay

This guide is being developed to help Nelson Mandela University students with the identification of rocky shore organisms around Port Elizabeth, in Algoa Bay and Seaview, in the Eastern Cape, on the South Coast of South Africa.
It is a 'work in progress' and will be continuously updated ...more ↓

Taxonomy
« Back To Crabs, Lobsters, Shrimps, and Allies Suborder Pleocyemata
- True Crabs Infraorder Brachyura
  - 3 Heterotrematan Crabs Zoosubsection Heterotremata
  - 6 Thoracotrematan Crabs Zoosubsection Thoracotremata

Red-eyed Reef Crab ¹
Eriphia smithii

toothed decorator crab ²
Acanthonyx dentatus

Western River Crab ³
Potamonautes perlatus

Thin-shelled Rock Crab ⁴
Grapsus tenuicrustatus

Shore Crab ⁵
Cyclograpsus punctatus

Red Rock Crab ⁶
Guinusia chabrus

Horned Ghost Crab ⁷
Ocypode ceratophthalmus

Ocypode madagascariensis ⁸

Pink Ghost Crab ⁹
Ocypode ryderi

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Rocky Shores of Algoa Bay

Red-eyed Reef Crab 1 Eriphia smithii

toothed decorator crab 2 Acanthonyx dentatus

Western River Crab 3 Potamonautes perlatus

Thin-shelled Rock Crab 4 Grapsus tenuicrustatus

Shore Crab 5 Cyclograpsus punctatus

Red Rock Crab 6 Guinusia chabrus

Horned Ghost Crab 7 Ocypode ceratophthalmus

Ocypode madagascariensis 8

Pink Ghost Crab 9 Ocypode ryderi