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Heterograpsus nudus
Shore Shore, n. [OE. schore, AS. score, probably fr. scieran, and so meaning properly, that which is shorn off, edge; akin to OD. schoore, schoor. See Shear, v. t.] The coast or land adjacent to a large body of water, as an ocean, lake, or large river. Michael Cassio, Lieutenant to the warlike Moor Othello, Is come shore. --Shak. The fruitful shore of muddy Nile. --Spenser. In shore, near the shore. --Marryat. On shore. See under On. Shore birds (Zo["o]l.), a collective name for the various limicoline birds found on the seashore. Shore crab (Zo["o]l.), any crab found on the beaches, or between tides, especially any one of various species of grapsoid crabs, as Heterograpsus nudus of California. Shore lark (Zo["o]l.), a small American lark (Otocoris alpestris) found in winter, both on the seacoast and on the Western plains. Its upper parts are varied with dark brown and light brown. It has a yellow throat, yellow local streaks, a black crescent on its breast, a black streak below each eye, and two small black erectile ear tufts. Called also horned lark. Shore plover (Zo["o]l.), a large-billed Australian plover (Esacus magnirostris). It lives on the seashore, and feeds on crustaceans, etc. Shore teetan (Zo["o]l.), the rock pipit (Anthus obscurus). [Prov. Eng.]

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- Grapsus grapsus is one of the most common crabs along the western coast of the Americas. It is known as the red rock crab, or, along with other crabs...
- Grapsus fourmanoiri Crosnier, 1965 Grapsus grapsus (Linnaeus, 1758) Grapsus granulosus Milne-Edwards, 1853 Grapsus intermedius De Man, 1888 Grapsus longitarsis...
- as the synonym Grapsus grapsus tenuicrustatus suggests, it had sometimes been classified as a subspecies of the sally-lightfoot. Grapsus tenuicrustatus...
- Grapsus adscensionis is a species of crab found in the eastern Atlantic Ocean. Grapsus adscensionis is found in parts of the Atlantic coast of Africa and...
- consistent method, which is usually unsuccessful. On more sheltered s****s, P. grapsus eats fewer mussels, but compensates with a greater consumption of barnacles...
-  sanguineus Binomial name Hemigrapsus sanguineus (De Haan, 1853)  Synonyms  Grapsus (Grapsus) sanguineus De Haan, 1835 Heterograpsus maculatus H. Milne-Edwards...
- kitten (a notodontid moth) Gesta gesta — impostor duskywing (a skipper) Grapsus grapsus — red rock crab Gryllotalpa gryllotalpa — European mole cricket Idea...
- Life : Grapsus albolineatus Latreille, in Milbert, 1812". www.catalogueoflife.org. Retrieved 2018-08-02. "Marine Species Identification Portal : Grapsus albolineatus"...
- (1996). "Diet composition influences the fitness of the herbivorous crab Grapsus albolineatus". Oecologia. 105 (1): 22–29. Bibcode:1996Oecol.105...22K....
- Genera Grapsus, Geograpsus and Metopograpsus (Crustacea Brachyura)". Temminckia. 10: 132-199 figs 1-6 [144]. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.376.4121. "Grapsus longitarsis"...