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Uca sp.
"Fiddler crabs are best known for different sized front claws, with one claw usually much larger than the other. This entire group is composed of small crabs – the largest being slightly over two inches across." ~wiki
spotted in the mangrove channel in Ras Mohamed National Park; "Found in mangroves, in salt marshes, and on sandy or muddy beaches of West Africa, the Western Atlantic, the Eastern Pacific and the Indo-Pacific, fiddler crabs are easily recognized by their distinctively asymmetric claws." ~wiki
maybe Uca tetragonon: http://www.fiddlercrab.info/u_tetragonon...
Spotted on Sep 23, 2013
Submitted on Oct 5, 2013
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