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Oregonia gracilis (Graceful Decorator Crab)
Scientific name: Oregonia gracilis

Taxonomy: Kingdom Animalia → Phylum Arthropoda → Subphylum Crustacea → Superclass Multicrustacea → Class Malacostraca → Subclass Eumalacostraca → Superorder Eucarida → Order Decapoda → Suborder Pleocyemata → Infraorder Brachyura → Section Eubrachyura → Subsection Heterotremata → Superfamily Majoidea → Family Oregoniidae → Subfamily Oregoniinae → Genus Oregonia

Common name: Graceful Decorator Crab
Locations: Eastern Pacific
Group: Marine LifeInvertebratesCrabs

Longer legs and thinner claws than the cryptic kelp crab.

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