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 Arthropods Phylum Arthropoda
- Crustaceans Subphylum Crustacea
  - 6 Barnacles and Copepods Class Hexanauplia
  - 17 Malacostracans Class Malacostraca

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

Dardanus arrosor ¹⁰

pink hermit crab ¹¹
Paguristes gamianus

Diogenes brevirostris ¹²

Yellow-footed Hermit Crab ¹²
Clibanarius virescens

Palaemon peringueyi ¹³

Southern Spiny Lobster ¹
Palinurus gilchristi

Apohyale ¹⁴

Ischyromene ¹⁵

Grey Volcano Barnacle ¹⁶
Tetraclita serrata

Chthamalus dentatus ¹

Octomeris angulosa ¹⁷

white dwarf barnacle ¹¹
Notomegabalanus algicola

giant barnacle ¹
Austromegabalanus cylindricus

Amphibalanus venustus ¹⁸

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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

Pink Ghost Crab 9 Ocypode ryderi

pink hermit crab 11 Paguristes gamianus

Yellow-footed Hermit Crab 12 Clibanarius virescens

Southern Spiny Lobster 1 Palinurus gilchristi

Grey Volcano Barnacle 16 Tetraclita serrata

white dwarf barnacle 11 Notomegabalanus algicola

giant barnacle 1 Austromegabalanus cylindricus