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Perisesarma
Perisesarma is a genus of mangrove crabs in the family Sesarmidae (or Grapsidae in some classifications) predominantly found in the Indo-Pacific. There are 23 species as of late 2006 with two from west Africa: P. kammermani (De Man, 1883) & P. alberti Rathbun, 1921. They are typically small semi-terrestrial crabs found on the forest floor at low tide. They eat nearly anything they can and will try to eat anything that doesn't threaten them — including...
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 133703.