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Fiddler crab (male)

Ocypodidae (family)

Photo by sttweets
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Field Notes

Habitat:

Found in mangroves, salt marshes, and on sandy or muddy beaches of West Africa, the Western Atlantic, Eastern Pacific and Indo-Pacific, fiddler crabs are easily recognized by their distinctively asymmetric claws.

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Fiddler crab

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Comments (3)
sttweets
@josedanny, what do you mean by Ucca leptodactyla? As far as I can see that is some kind of frog, not a crab. Can you explain?

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