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Mottled crab
Metasesarma obesum
Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 246198, checked 2026-10-31).
- English
- Mottled crab
- Scientific
- Metasesarma obesum
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Group
- Crabs
- IUCN status
- NE · Not EvaluatedNot Evaluated (NE)
Description
A small, square-shelled land crab with a mottled brown shell. It lives among coastal vegetation and leaf litter close to the shore.
In the Maldives
Recorded from the Maldives: museum specimens (n=5); iNaturalist research-grade observations in the Maldives (n=26, 21 observers).
Sources
- marinespecies.org /aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=246198
- inaturalist.org /taxa/123375
- commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/File:Metasesarma_obesum_(MNHN-IU-2011-8999).jpeg
Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.