Liocarcinus vernalis, the grey swimming crab, is a small, shallow-water crab in the family Portunidae.

L. vernalis was thought for a long time to be a predominantly Mediterranean species, but its known range was extended by a series of observations in the 1980s and 1990s.

It ranges from West Africa to the southern North Sea.

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