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Flamed Fiddler Crab

Uca flammula

Description:

Various sizes from 2 cm to 7cm, some completely black and some with various dark orange/red patterns

Habitat:

In the mud, in the mangroves

Notes:

Shelfish http://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/sp...

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Flamed Fiddler Crab
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5 Comments

CataAna
CataAna 12 years ago

Thank you LauraMaria! It was an amazing view, so many orange crabs around me. Love them!

LauraMaria
LauraMaria 12 years ago

Cool, it's a fiddler crab so in the Uca genus, and I would be pretty confident in saying it's Uca flammula since that colouration is pretty distinctive! Nice photos, what cool looking crabs!

wow, very nice pics

Elsa
Elsa 12 years ago

Fiddler crab of some sort :) Nice colours!

Noe and Pili
Noe and Pili 12 years ago

It's a very cool crab, I like the combination of colors

CataAna
Spotted by
CataAna

Broome, Western Australia, Australia

Spotted on Apr 4, 2011
Submitted on Apr 17, 2011

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