Geograpsus severnsi

Tags: Crustacean.

Geograpsus severnsi is an extinct species of land crab from Hawaii. It died out shortly after humans colonized the Hawaiian Islands and is the first documented example of a crab becoming extinct in historical times.

thumbnail
class: Malacostraca
family: Grapsidae
genus: Geograpsus
kingdom: Animal
order: Decapoda, Crab
phylum: Arthropod, Crustacean

Learn more...

This page contains content from the copyrighted Wikipedia article "Geograpsus severnsi"; that content is used under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). You may redistribute it, verbatim or modified, providing that you comply with the terms of the GFDL.