1. Start
  2. Crustaceans
  3. Crabs
  4. Percnon
  5. Percnon affine
Anzeige
Fauna Marin GmbH aquarioom.com Fauna Marin GmbH Cyo Control Aqua Medic

Percnon affine Blue-eyed Rock Crab

Percnon affine is commonly referred to as Blue-eyed Rock Crab. Difficulty in the aquarium: There are no reports available yet that this animal has already been kept in captivity successfully.

Profilbild Urheber Keoki & Yuko Okano Stender, Hawaii

Percnon-affine-male-2_Male, Lana'i Lookout, Oahu, 15 feet


Courtesy of the author Keoki & Yuko Okano Stender, Hawaii . Please visit www.marinelifephotography.com for more information.

Uploaded by Muelly.

Image detail

Profile

lexID:
15173 
AphiaID:
207572 
Scientific:
Percnon affine 
German:
Blauaugen-Felsenkrabbe 
English:
Blue-eyed Rock Crab 
Category:
Crabs 
Family tree:
Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Decapoda (Order) > Percnidae (Family) > Percnon (Genus) > affine (Species) 
Initial determination:
(H. Milne Edwards, ), 1853 
Occurrence:
Arabian Sea, Fiji, French Polynesia, Gulf of Oman / Oman, Hawaii, Indian Ocean, Indo Pacific, Invasive Species, Iran, Madagascar, Marquesas Islands, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Niue, Réunion , Tahiti, Taiwan, the Cocos Islands / Keeling Islands, the Society Islands, Tuamoto Islands, Western Indian Ocean, Western Pacific Ocean 
Marine Zone:
Subtidal, sublittoral, infralittoral, deep zone of the oceans from the lower limit of the intertidal zone (intertidal) to the shelf edge at about 200 m water depth. neritic. 
Sea depth:
1 - 10 Meter 
Size:
7,6 cm 
Temperature:
~ 82.4 °F (28°C) 
Food:
Algae (Algivore), Carrion, omnivore 
Difficulty:
There are no reports available yet that this animal has already been kept in captivity successfully 
Offspring:
Not available as offspring 
CITES:
Not evaluated 
Red List:
Not evaluated (NE) 
Related species at
Catalog of Life:
 
Author:
Publisher:
Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:
Last edit:
2023-06-26 10:52:58 

Info

Percnon affine (H. Milne Edwards, 1853)

Inhabit holes and caverns in shallow water exposed to wave action. The Eyes are bright blue in color, upper surface of male claws dark brown. Hawaiii and the Indo-Pacific.

Blue-eyed Rock Crab mainly feeds on macroalgae.

Synonymised names:
Acanthopus affinis H. Milne Edwards, 1853 · unaccepted > superseded combination
Acanthopus pilimanus A. Milne-Edwards, 1873 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Percnon affinis (H. Milne Edwards, 1853) · unaccepted > misspelling

External links

  1. Crabs from the Kermadec Islands in the South Pacific (en). Abgerufen am 15.09.2022.
  2. CRUSTACEA DECAPODA OF FRENCH POLYNESIA (ASTACIDEA, PALINURIDEA, ANOMURA, BRACHYUKA (en). Abgerufen am 15.09.2022.
  3. Dietary preferences of brachyuran crabs from Taiwan for marine or terrestrial food sources: evidence based on fatty acid trophic markers (en). Abgerufen am 15.09.2022.
  4. Marine Biodiversity Survey of Guam and the Marianas (en). Abgerufen am 15.09.2022.
  5. MarineLife Photography Keoki & Yuko Stender (en). Abgerufen am 15.09.2022.
  6. New record of the rare alien grapsoid crab Percnon affine (H. Milne Edwards, 1853) (Crustacea, Decapoda, Grapsoidea, Plagusidae) from the northern Indian Ocean (en). Abgerufen am 15.09.2022.
  7. sealifebase.se (en). Abgerufen am 15.09.2022.
  8. WoRMS (en). Abgerufen am 15.09.2022.

Pictures

Male

Percnon-affine-maleMale, Sharks Cove, Oahu, 30 feet
Percnon-affine-male-2_Male, Lana'i Lookout, Oahu, 15 feet

Female

Percnon-affine-female-Sharks Cove, Oahu, 30 feet

Commonly

Husbandry know-how of owners

0 husbandary tips from our users available
Show all and discuss