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Metopograpsus messor
Purple Estuarine Rock Crab
As recorded: Metopograpsus messor (Forskål, 1775)
Animalia › Arthropoda › Malacostraca › Decapoda › Grapsidae
- Collected by
- C.H. Edmondson
- Locality
- Wake Island
- Island
- Wake Island
- Region
- U.S. Outlying Islands
- Record type
- Preserved specimen
Metopograpsus messor observed alive
Since 2000, iNaturalist observers have recorded 80 research-grade sightings in the wild, most recently on 2026-10-19.
2026-10-19
Al Jubail Island - JN - Abu Dhabi - United Arab Emirates
(c) Wa'el Almatni, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND)
2026-10-19
Al Jubail Island - JN - Abu Dhabi - United Arab Emirates
(c) Wa'el Almatni, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND)
2026-10-19
Al Jubail Island - JN - Abu Dhabi - United Arab Emirates
(c) Wa'el Almatni, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND)
2026-10-19
Al Jubail Island - JN - Abu Dhabi - United Arab Emirates
(c) Wa'el Almatni, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND)
2026-09-22
Dubai, Dubai, AE
(c) Fayis Mohamed, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
2026-09-20
Egypt
(c) Ahmed Ismail, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
Observations and photos from iNaturalist, shown only when openly licensed.
Cite this specimen
Metopograpsus messor. BPBM 1402. Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Honolulu. GBIF occurrence 37566725. Accessed via explore.bishopmuseum.org/specimens/s/1402.
Record sources
- GBIF occurrence 37566725 ↗
- Data license: CC0
- Last harvested October 26, 2026
Data-quality notes from GBIF
- Name matched to the GBIF backbone only approximately
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