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title: "Sally Lightfoot Crab"
description: "Grapsus grapsus — Other animals. Grapsus grapsus is one of the most common crabs along the western coast of the Americas."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/sally-lightfoot-crab
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Sally Lightfoot Crab

> Grapsus grapsus — Other animals. Grapsus grapsus is one of the most common crabs along the western coast of the Americas.

- Scientific name: *Grapsus grapsus*
- Category: `other` (Other animals)
- Habitats: `sea` (Sea & coast)
- iNaturalist observations: 17151
- Wikidata: [Q181075](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q181075)
- iNaturalist taxon: [55295](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/55295)

## Names

- en: Sally Lightfoot Crab
- de: Rote Klippenkrabbe
- es: Zapaya
- fr: Grapse peint

## Countries with the most observations

EC (4990), MX (3756), PE (943), CR (940), PR (826), CO (361), CW (281), AW (269), US (255), PA (234), CL (203), DO (193)

## Summary

Grapsus grapsus is one of the most common crabs along the western coast of the Americas. It is known as the red rock crab, or, along with other crabs such as Percnon gibbesi, as the Sally Lightfoot crab.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grapsus_grapsus

## Photo

![Sally Lightfoot Crab](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/sally-lightfoot-crab/medium.jpg)

Photo: sunny tyson · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/231889802

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/sally-lightfoot-crab?lang=en` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).