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Fiddler Crab
Uca sp.
27.7527, 34.2385
Field Notes
Description:
"Fiddler crabs are best known for different sized front claws, with one claw usually much larger than the other. This entire group is composed of small crabs – the largest being slightly over two inches across." ~wiki
Habitat:
spotted in the mangrove channel in Ras Mohamed National Park; "Found in mangroves, in salt marshes, and on sandy or muddy beaches of West Africa, the Western Atlantic, the Eastern Pacific and the Indo-Pacific, fiddler crabs are easily recognized by their distinctively asymmetric claws." ~wiki
Notes:
maybe Uca tetragonon: http://www.fiddlercrab.info/u_tetragonon.html
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Fiddler crab
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PublishedOctober 5, 2013
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