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Sand-Bubbler Crab Pellets

Dotilla fenestrata

Photo by glbnoah109
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Field Notes

Description:

The pellets are several millimeters in diameters. The pellets are radiating outward from the entrance burrow of a small crab. The pellets results from the crab scouring the sand for very low concentrations of organic matter.

Habitat:

Tropical marine intertidal zone.

Reference Links:

Sand bubbler crab

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