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Flamed Fiddler Crab

Uca flammula

Photo by CataAna
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Field Notes

Description:

Various sizes from 2 cm to 7cm, some completely black and some with various dark orange/red patterns

Habitat:

In the mud, in the mangroves

Notes:

Shelfish
http://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/species-bank/sbank-treatment.pl?i…

Species ID Suggestions

Flamed Fiddler Crab

Uca flammula

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LauraMaria
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Comments (5)
CataAna
Thank you LauraMaria! It was an amazing view, so many orange crabs around me. Love them!
LauraMaria
Cool, it's a fiddler crab so in the Uca genus, and I would be pretty confident in saying it's Uca flammula since that colouration is pretty distinctive! Nice photos, what cool looking crabs!
Elsa
Fiddler crab of some sort :) Nice colours!
Noe and Pili
It's a very cool crab, I like the combination of colors

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