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Infraorder Brachyura // Family Varunidae // Genus Cyrtograpsus
  Cyrtograpsus angulatus Dana, 1851  
This crab is found in the coastal strip on a rocky, sandy and muddy bottom. Occurs in desalinated areas at the estuary of the Rio de la Plata. In the Atlantic Ocean, it forms local settlements in the states of Brazil: Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Parana, Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul; found in the southeast of Uruguay in the departments: Rocha, Maldonado, Canelones and Montevideo; on the coast of Argentina in the provinces: Buenos Aires, Rio Negro, Chubut and northeast of Santa Cruz (Puerto Deseado). There is also a Pacific population that ranges from the San Lorenzo Bay in western Peru to Talcahuano in central Chile.
South America        
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