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Uca pugnax
Dark coloration, with creamy, almost yellow large claw on males used for fighting and attracting females. Females have no large claw.
Salt marshes, and reed beds.
Studying the Barnagat Bay with The Sedge Island Summer group of 2010.
Spotted on Aug 9, 2010
Submitted on Nov 13, 2011
4 Comments
Moved to Arthropods :-)
Ha, fighting...
Thanks! I tried to get a shot a male and female on my hand to show the difference, but they are just so fast, and it kept running off my hand! Im 14 and at the time i was just turning 13, but i was in a biology program in the Barnagat Bay, in NJ. I saw a lot interesting things there...check out the baby turtle on my page. I just started project noah as few weeks ago, so now i have to go through like 10,000 pics i took over the years of the animals. So, im going to have a lot of spotting that i spotted from a few years ago.
Nice shot! Interesting to see the difference in size between the claws.