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Pacific mole crab

Emerita analoga

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44.1681, -124.119

Field Notes

Habitat:

Shallow ocean waters.

Notes:

Found multitudes of them in the tides on the beach. Every time a wave would pass over them, they would surface and rebury themselves by swimming backwards into the sand.

Species ID Suggestions

Pacific mole crab

Emerita analoga

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Jae
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Comments (3)
LarryGraziano
Nice spotting. I am in agreement with Jae's spotting suggestion.
Muckpuk
Wow! No idea what that is! That looks like a huge Sandflee...

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PublishedJuly 26, 2014

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