Specimen ID | 4777 |
Group | Crustaceans-Crabs |
Genus | Hemigrapsus |
Species | sanguineus |
Common Name | Asian shore crab |
State | NJ |
County | Cape May |
Locality | Atlantic Ocean in a high intertidal region of a rock-fill at the southern end of the Townsends Inlet Bridge in Cape May County |
Mapping Accuracy | Accurate |
HUC8 Name | Great Egg Harbor |
HUC8 Number | 02040302 |
HUC10 Name | Great Egg Harbor Bay-Barrier Islands |
HUC10 Number | 0204030204 |
HUC12 Name | Townsend Channel-Townsends Inlet |
HUC12 Number | 020403020406 |
Map | |
Collection Year | 1988 |
Year Accuracy | Actual |
Potential Pathway | shipping |
Status | established |
Reference 1 |
Ref. Number: | 9295 |
Author: | Williams, A.B., and J.J. McDermott |
Date: | 1990 |
Title: | An eastern United States record for the western Indo-Pacific crab, Hemigrapsus sanguineus (Crustacea: Decapoda: Grapsidae). |
Journal: | Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington |
Volume: | 103 |
Pages: | 108-109 |
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Reference 2 |
Ref. Number: | 9293 |
Author: | McDermott, John, J. |
Date: | 1998 |
Title: | The western Pacific brachyuran (Hemigrapsus sanguineus: Grapsidae), in its new habitat along the Atlantic coast of the United States: geographic distribution and ecology. |
Journal: | ICES Journal of Marine Science |
Volume: | 55 |
Pages: | 289-298 |
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Comments | Ovigerous female. |
Record Type | Literature |
Verifier | Dr. John J. McDermott, Dr. A.B. Williams (Smithson |
Freshwater/Marine | Brackish-Marine |
Number Collected | 1 |