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Sand balls made by a Sand bubbler crab !

Family: Dotillidae

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8 Comments

Saumya Wanniarachchi
Saumya Wanniarachchi 10 years ago

Thank you very much Mark ! ! :)

Mark Ridgway
Mark Ridgway 10 years ago

Moved to Arthropods category and put Family name by lori.tas into scientific name.

Saumya Wanniarachchi
Saumya Wanniarachchi 10 years ago

Thank you lori.tas ! :)

lori.tas
lori.tas 10 years ago

A species in the family Dotillidae, know collectively as Sand bubbler crabs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand_bubble...

Saumya Wanniarachchi
Saumya Wanniarachchi 10 years ago

He he that's cool ! I get to go near sea once in a while ! Me too love seeing these things all over the beach !

AliceGreenup
AliceGreenup 10 years ago

No worries! I use to love seeing these all over the beach and chasing the crabs back into them!

Saumya Wanniarachchi
Saumya Wanniarachchi 10 years ago

Thank you AliceGreenup ! I will edit the title !!!

AliceGreenup
AliceGreenup 10 years ago

This was probably made by a crab, wouldn't be able to tell which kind though.

Sri Lanka

Spotted on Jan 25, 2013
Submitted on May 13, 2013

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