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Ocypodidae
crab found on a remote virgin beach in Palawan
coast & shallow water
Spotted on Jul 17, 2011
Submitted on Jul 24, 2011
10 Comments
Hi, Tom. I've moved this to Arthropods for you. Please go ahead and move the scientific name (Ocypode cordimana) to the proper field and change the common name to reflect the species. Thanks!
I learned too.. Since my childhood I go to less such crab friendly seashores... In my city Mumbai seashores are totally polluted...!!
Yes, this on is it. I edited the ID. Thanks for the research!
There were thousands of them on this beach. No people there. When you set one footstep, so much life was crawling away & around.
Tom its not a Land crab as its directed to Eubrachyura section of Decapoda order of marine invertebrates.
My first suggestion was wrong.
Also observed that its left claw is smaller than right claw what also match with Ghost crab.
Correction
I was searching lot on Land crabs but its not matched with any find similarity with Ghost crab
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_crab
Close to Cardisoma sp. but not sure..!!
welcome..!!
thanks for the ID, AshishNimkar
Land crab