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Ocypode cordimana

Ocypodidae

Photo by Tom Maebe
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Field Notes

Description:

crab found on a remote virgin beach in Palawan

Habitat:

coast & shallow water

Reference Links:

Ghost crab

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (10)
Aaron_G
Hi, Tom. I've moved this to Arthropods for you. Please go ahead and move the scientific name (Ocypode cordimana) to the proper field and change the common name to reflect the species. Thanks!
Ashish
I learned too.. Since my childhood I go to less such crab friendly seashores... In my city Mumbai seashores are totally polluted...!!
Tom Maebe
Yes, this on is it. I edited the ID. Thanks for the research! There were thousands of them on this beach. No people there. When you set one footstep, so much life was crawling away & around.
Ashish
Tom its not a Land crab as its directed to Eubrachyura section of Decapoda order of marine invertebrates. My first suggestion was wrong.
Ashish
Also observed that its left claw is smaller than right claw what also match with Ghost crab.
Ashish
Correction I was searching lot on Land crabs but its not matched with any find similarity with Ghost crab http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_crab
Ashish
Close to Cardisoma sp. but not sure..!!
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PublishedJuly 24, 2011

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