“…There is a plethora of reports of diseases in shore crabs both in their native (Stentiford and Feist, 2005;Edwards et al, 2019;Davies et al, 2020a,b) and non-native (Goddard et al, 2005;Bojko et al, 2017Bojko et al, , 2018Blakeslee et al, 2020;Frizzera et al, 2021) ranges (Figure 1). Disease causing agents include viruses (Bojko et al, 2019;Bateman et al, 2021), bacteria (Spindler-Barth, 1976Eddy et al, 2007), fungi (Davies et al, 2020a), microsporidians (Bojko et al, 2017), dinoflagellates (Chatton and Poisson, 1931;Stentiford and Feist, 2005;Hamilton et al, 2007Hamilton et al, , 2009Davies et al, 2019), haplosporidians (Davies et al, 2020b), nematodes (Stentiford and Feist, 2005), acanthocephalans (Zetlmeisl et al, 2011), digeneans (Stentiford and Feist, 2005;Zetlmeisl et al, 2011;Blakeslee et al, 2015Blakeslee et al, , 2020, and parasitic barnacles, Sacculina carcini (Mouritsen and Jensen, 2006;Powell and Rowley, 2008;Lützen et al, 2018;Mouritsen et al, 2018;Rowley et al, 2020).…”