Lithodidae Dromiidae Atelecyclidae Cancridae Pirimelidae Cheiragonidae Dorippidae Eriphiidae Epialtidae Inachidae Oregoniidae Pilumnidae Geryonidae Portunidae Potamidae Panopeidae Xanthidae Grapsidae Images Name list Publications Sites alex@equator.ru Whole checklist По-русски (in Russian) Porcellanidae Varunidae Camptandriidae Macrophthalmidae Pinnotheridae Hapalogastridae Plagusiidae Far East / North Pacific Black Sea Baltic Sea Freshwater crabs Arctic Ocean Designed and composed by Alex Alyakrinsky, 2011 Link to this image Grapsidae Pachygrapsus marmoratus (Fabricius, 1787) Black Sea Range. “Pachygrapsus marmoratus is known from the entire Mediterranean, the Black Sea,  and the E. Atlantic between the Normandy coast of France in the north, and Morocco, the  Canary Islands, the Azores and Madeira in the south.” [Holthuis & Gottlieb, 1958, p. 101].  The species is the most common crab on the rocky coasts of the Black Sea (littoral and  supralittoral). Sometimes it goes to the dry land. Balanus improvissus is often encrust it.  [Kobjakova & Dolgopolskaya, 1969, p. 298].  Size of carapace. Up to 40 x 45 mm. [Kobjakova & Dolgopolskaya, 1969, p. 298]. Breadth -  to 42 mm (male); in the ovigerous females the carapace breadth is 13 to 35 mm. [Holthuis,  1961, p. 59]. Pachygrapsus marmoratus (Fabricius, 1787) Cancer marmoratus Fabricius, 1787, p. 349. Pachygrapsus marmoratus   Heller, 1863, p. 111, pl. 3, figs. 8-10; Pesta, 1918, p. 451, fig. 149; Nobre,  1931, p. 103, figs. 58, 59;Nobre, 1936, p. 61, est. 1, fig. 1, est. 22, fig. 42;  Bouvier, 1940, p. 289, fig. 179, pl. 11, fig. 3; Zariquiey Alvarez, 1946, p.  163, est. 18, e; Holthuis & Gottlieb, 1958, p. 100, est. 3, fig. 15; Neves,  1967, p. 277; Zariquiey Alvarez, 1968, p . 423, figs. 140, a, 141, b-e.  [Neves, 1975, p. 38].  Pachygrapsus marmoratus Steinitz, 1933, p. 152; Bodenheimer, 1935, p.  468; Bodenheimer, 1937, p. 281; Gottlieb, 1953, p. 440; Carmin 1955, p.  2. [Holthuis & Gottlieb, 1958, p. 100].  Pachygrapsus marmoratus in marevita.org