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blue soldier crabs

Mictyris longicarpus

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Field Notes

Description:

brightly coloured crabsplaced in its own taxonomical family.It in habits the central region.These crabs congregate on mud flats or beaches in groups of thousands they filter sand and mud for microscopic organisms.They congregate during low tide and bury them selves in the sand during high tide or when ever threatened.This is done in wet sand and they dig in a corkscrew pattern leaving small round pellets of sand behind them

Habitat:

wets and mud flats

Notes:

I found these blue crabs in the hundreds in swampy like mud

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Comments (2)

Hi NatashiaEslick! I've relocated this spotting to the Arthropods category for you. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthropod
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PublishedOctober 3, 2013

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