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title: "Cangrejo costero rayado"
description: "Pachygrapsus crassipes — Otros animales. Pachygrapsus crassipes, the striped shore crab or lined shore crab, is a small crab found on both rocky and hard-mud soft seashores of the northeastern and northwestern Pacific Ocean."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/es/animal/striped-shore-crab
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Cangrejo costero rayado

> Pachygrapsus crassipes — Otros animales. Pachygrapsus crassipes, the striped shore crab or lined shore crab, is a small crab found on both rocky and hard-mud soft seashores of the northeastern and northwestern Pacific Ocean.

- Scientific name: *Pachygrapsus crassipes*
- Category: `other` (Otros animales)
- Habitats: `sea` (Mar y costa)
- iNaturalist observations: 35082
- Wikidata: [Q1058143](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1058143)
- iNaturalist taxon: [47188](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/47188)

## Names

- en: Striped Shore Crab
- es: Cangrejo costero rayado

## Countries with the most observations

US (33441), MX (662), JP (215), CA (129), KR (70), CN (48), TW (13)

## Summary

Pachygrapsus crassipes, the striped shore crab or lined shore crab, is a small crab found on both rocky and hard-mud soft seashores of the northeastern and northwestern Pacific Ocean. In North America, this species occurs from central Oregon, south through California to near Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico.  There is an isolated population with a wide range disjunction at Bamfield on Vancouver Island, Canada. The western Pacific population, including both Korea and Japan is isolated with a divergence time from the eastern Pacific population estimated between 0.8 and 1.2 Mya.

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

## Photo

![Cangrejo costero rayado](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/striped-shore-crab/medium.jpg)

Photo: Al Kordesch · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/55544231

## Machine access

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