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This is the Home Page for Mexican Crabs a website under the Mexican-fauna.org umbrella.  Mexican Crabs.org became a stand-alone website in October 2023.  It is set up as a .org (as it is most definitely a non-profit) and is one of six stand alone .org websites that cover six basic areas of biological life found in Mexico (Birds, Crabs, Fish, Marine Life, Shells and Terrestrial Life).  Historically the majority of its contents were found within Mexican-fish.com.  It has been put together via the collective efforts of Jeremiah Bachman, a Junior Environmental Science Major at Grand Canyon University in Phoenix and John Snow, a nomadic retired well-traveled non-productive beach bum.

The current inventory of known living Mexican Crabs is substantial, poorly organized and there is limited information available in a consolidated location.  The information presented herein was obtained from the public literature including such internet search engines as Google and the ICUN (which is used to obtain the current conservation status of each species).

The current Crab inventory within this WWW site includes 18 individual species all of which are found in various locations throughout Mexico of which 0 are ENDEMIC and 0 are currently considered to be VULNERABLE or ENDANGERED.

NEW POSTING FOR 2023:  1
Northern Kelp Crab, Pugettia producta

Via the links below you can also find a comprehensive list of all Crabs presented by:

Crabs (18) – Alphabetical Index by Common Name
Crabs (18) – Alphabetical Index by Genus and Species
Crabs (18) – Alphabetical Index by 12 Families
Crabs (18) – Alphabetical Index by  12 Families with Photographs

For all the Crabs found within this website each name has been linked to a specific page that has additional photographs of each Crab Life species.

Photographs:  The photographs provided are taken in various locations throughout Mexico with the locations clearly marked.  There are a handful of photographs that were taken in the southwestern United States of that are also permanent Mexican residents or known visitors to Mexico.

A Special THANK YOU to my exceptional photographers that have given us access to their extensive portfolios that have been included within this WWW site:

Bob Hillis, Ivins, Utah
Ondřej Radosta, Prague, Czech Republic

Other Contributors of Photographs and/or Identifications Include:

Don Cadien, Marine Biology Laboratory, Carson, California
Colin Campbell, Punta Chivato, Baja California Sur
Jason Quick, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Carol Snow, Del Mar, California
Marina Sutormina, Stockholm, Sweden
Ron, Zihua
Maude, Zihua

Thank you for visiting.  We hope you found this portfolio as interesting and diverse as we have.

Jeremiah Bachman and John T. Snow, Ph.D.