Sealife guideThe sheep crabLoxorhynchus grandis
Taxonomy
- Common name: Sheep crab, californian sheep crab
- French name: Crabe araignée mouton californien
- Scientific name: Loxorhynchus grandis (Stimpson, 1857)
- Family name: Epialtidae
- Order name: Decapoda
- Class name: The crustaceans [Malacostraca]
Within the same family

Corallimorph decorator crab
(Cyclocoeloma tuberculata)

Decorator arrow crab
(Hyastenus bispinosus)
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Ghost crab
(Ocypode gaudichaudii)

Red-spotted guard crab
(Trapezia tigrina)

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Mosshead warbonnet
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Red sea urchin
(Mesocentrotus franciscanus)

Sunflower sea star
(Pycnopodia helianthoides)
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A stop in Barcelona

A visit to the Getty Center

A walk down Ocean Drive

Aquatica water park
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Noa dive center

Sea Dwellers Dive Center
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