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Fiddler crab (male)

Ocypodidae (family)

Habitat:

Found in mangroves, salt marshes, and on sandy or muddy beaches of West Africa, the Western Atlantic, Eastern Pacific and Indo-Pacific, fiddler crabs are easily recognized by their distinctively asymmetric claws.

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3 Comments

sttweets
sttweets 11 years ago

@josedanny, what do you mean by Ucca leptodactyla? As far as I can see that is some kind of frog, not a crab. Can you explain?

josedanny
josedanny 11 years ago

Ucca leptodactyla

MichaelFoisy
MichaelFoisy 11 years ago

These critters have interesting asymmetry!

sttweets
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Spotted on Jun 12, 2011
Submitted on Jun 25, 2011

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