‘I was really excited to see a Rock Greenling on one of the dives today. The students and I were making a wide counter-clockwise drift dive around Great Race Rock and in the surf-grass bed on the W side of the island a beautiful Rock Greenling was spotted. It was a very curious fish, leaving its position to check out each diver individually before returning to the grass.’, ‘Ryan’, ’13:11:06 ,
Daily Archives: Sunday,October 24, 2010
Pugettia gracilis: Graceful kelp crab–The Race Rocks Taxonomy
Pugettia gracilis, Graceful kelp crab– Photo by Ryan Murphy
We see this small crab occasionally at Race Rocks. Ryan caught this one as it nestled in between white anemone.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Infraorder: Brachyura
Family: Epialtidae
Genus: Pugettia
Species: P. gracilis
Other Members of the Phylum Arthropoda at Race Rocks.
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