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Field Notes

Description:

Found several of these dead on the beach in Crescent City. One had funky orange stuff in his shell but most were barely the outer shell broken among the surf.

Species ID Suggestions

mole crab

Emerita (genus)

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larkinpb
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Comments (7)
larkinpb
its a mole crab and i think orange stuff is an egg mass
Cammie C. Jeffries
These are so neat!! My dad called them "mud buddies". When I was a kid I remember sitting at the edge of the water & digging after them every time the water would roll back out. (This was on the east coast though.) Sorry you only saw deceased ones.
Doren B
Mole crab. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerita_analoga
Machi
Mole crab. Pacific Mole Crab I think http://bugguide.net/node/view/603684
CorduneanuVlad
Looks like a Sand Flea, but there are different types. I don't know the family that this one belongs to.

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Sea life of the Pacific Northwest.
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Wilderness Friends of California
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Mission WILD
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Ecology of California
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PublishedJune 16, 2016

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