Varunidae
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Hemigrapsus oregonensis
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High tides
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Inside burrows during low tide
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Willason 1981; Batie 1983
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Hemigrapsus sanguineus
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High tides
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Under stones or boulders during diurnal low tides
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Lohrer et al. 2000; Brousseau et al. 2002
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Gaetice depressus
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High tides
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Under stones or boulders during diurnal low tides
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Lohrer et al. 2000
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Acmaeopleura parvula
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High tides
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Under stones or boulders during diurnal low tides
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Lohrer et al. 2000
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Cyclograpsus insularum
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High tides
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Under stones or boulders during low tides
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Brockerhoff and McLay 2005
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Cyclograpsus lavauxi
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High tides
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Under stones or boulders during low tides
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Brockerhoff and McLay 2005
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Helice tridens
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High tides
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Inside burrows during low tides
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Kurihara et al. 1988
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Helicana (=Helice) japonica
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High tides
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Inside burrows during low tides
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Omori et al. 1997
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Cyrtograpsus angulatus
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Active in the air–water boundary during both high and low tides
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Under stones or boulders, inside N. granulata burrows if available or migration to the subtidal (low tides)
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Boschi 1964; personal observations
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Cyrtograpsus
altimanus
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Not observed
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Under stones or boulders, or inside Ficopomatus enigmaticus (Polychaeta: Serpulidae) reefs (low tides)
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Spivak 1999
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Metaplax elegans
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Low tides
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Inside burrows
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Ng and Sivasothi 2001
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Helograpsus haswellianus
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Low tides
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Inside burrows during high tides
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Breitfuss 2003
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Paragrapsus gaimardii
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Nocturnal low tides
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Buried in sand during the day
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Snow 1973
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Austrohelice (=Helice) crassa
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Low and high tides
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Inside burrows
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Williams et al.1985
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Neohelice granulata
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Mainly during high tides; less frequently during low tides; diurnal or nocturnal; activity varied among sites
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Inside burrows (low tides)
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This paper
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Chasmagnathus convexus
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Low tides nocturnal
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Inside burrows
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Nakasone et al. 1982
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Grapsidae
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Pachygrapsus socius (= P. transversus)
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Diurnal and nocturnal low tides
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In rock holes and crevices during high tides
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Abele et al. 1986
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P. marmoratus
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Nocturnal low tides
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In rock crevices during high tides
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Cannicci et al. 1999; Ferreira Silva et al. 2009
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P. crassipes in salt marshes
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Above and below the water line during low tides; movement changed during the tidal amplitude cycle
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Inside H. oregonensis burrows
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Willason 1981; Morgan et al. 2006
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P. crassipes in rocky shore
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Nocturnal low tides
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In rock holes and crevices during high tides
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Hiatt 1948
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Metopograpsus thukuhar
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Mainly at low tides but also at high tides
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In crevices of mangle roots (Rhizophora mucronata)
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Fratini et al. 2000
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Grapsus grapsus
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Low tides
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In crevices or on the surface of rocks
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Romero 2003
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Grapsus tenuicristatus
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Diurnal low and high tides
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In crevices at night
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Eshky 1999
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G. adscensionis
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Diurnal low tides
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In crevices or on the surface of rocks during nocturnal low and high tides and diurnal high tides
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Hartnoll 2009
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Sesarmidae
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Sesarma reticulatum
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Nocturnal high tides
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Inside burrows during low tides
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Palmer 1967; Seiple 1981
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Armases (=Sesarma) cinereum
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Nocturnal
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Diurnal, under boards and debris
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Seiple 1979; Seiple and Mueller 1992
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Sesarma leptosoma
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Diurnal activity (tree climbing); non-tidal in the morning; related with high tides in the evening
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In crevices of mangle roots (Rhizophora mucronata)
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Vannini et al. 1997
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