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Kōrero: Coastal shoreline

Purple shore crab

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Purple shore crab

Take care when poking around crevices of the rocky shore – an aggressive little crab may be sheltering within. Purple shore crabs can deliver a painful nip with their front claws. They roam the coast at night in search of live or dead animals to eat.

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Department of Conservation

Reference: 10049380

by Rod Morris

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Maggy Wassilieff, Coastal shoreline – Rock pools and boulder shores, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/4822/purple-shore-crab (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Maggy Wassilieff, i tāngia i te 2 March 2009.