| Guinusia chabrus | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Brachyura |
| Family: | Plagusiidae |
| Genus: | Guinusia |
| Species: | G. chabrus |
| Binomial name | |
| Guinusia chabrus | |
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The red rock crab (Guinusia chabrus) is a marine large-eyed crab of the family Plagusiidae. [1] It is found in the southern Indian and southern Pacific Oceans, including South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and Chile. [2]
Guinusia chabrus is placed in the family Plagusiidae, and was first described as Cancer chabrus by Carl Linnaeus in 1758. Until 2010, it was known as Plagusia chabrus, but then a new genus was erected, named Guinusia in honour of Danièle Guinot. [3]
A sturdy square bodied crab with a smooth dark red-brown carapace and yellow longitudinal ridges on the legs, yellow knobs on the pincers. There may be four white spots on the carapace in a roughly semicircular pattern. [4]
Southern Africa: Luderitz to Sodwana Bay, Subtidal to at least 100m. [4]
Common on reefs. Often seen in crevices or hiding under other benthic organisms. Scavenger. [4]
With Haliotis midae it makes up the favoured diet of Octopus vulgaris in False Bay, South Africa. [5]
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