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Red Crab

Ucides occidentalis

Description:

It was hilarious, because its habitat always found in large amounts, so I decided to surprise him, ran much got tired and take photos

Habitat:

The red crab or mangrove crab is an fundamental to the ecology of mangroves. It is a unique mangrove crab is detritivore, recycling of organic matter.

Notes:

The red crab is threatened by various human activities, such as logging, pollution of streams, construction of shrimp, overexploitation by indiscriminate capture, lack of awareness, knowledge and compliance.

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9 Comments

Anda es increible, yo me quede en la estacion de la USFQ, no se bien que hoteles puede haber por ahi pero seguramente hay, sino en el cuyabeno que es cerca hay varios y mas economicos

Davidenko2206
Davidenko2206 9 months ago

Gracias juanJo. capaz vamos a ir al Yasuni con un amigo de la U, para que me recomiendes donde puedo ir?

OnengDyah
OnengDyah 9 months ago

Cute....

SheaEckert
SheaEckert 9 months ago

Beautiful!

Te salió perfecta la foto.

Davidenko2206
Davidenko2206 9 months ago

Thanks for the recommendation

Davidenko2206
Davidenko2206 9 months ago

Perhaps it is 10 cm

MichaelFoisy
MichaelFoisy 9 months ago

This is the most adorable crab I've ever seen!
How big was it?

S Frazier
S Frazier 9 months ago

Moved to Arthropods :-)

Esmeraldas, Ecuador

Lat: 0.55, Long: -80.00

Spotted on Aug 10, 2012
Submitted on Aug 14, 2012

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