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Light Blue Soldier Crab

Mictyris longicarpus

Photo by Chicquita
Published on Project Noah
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Description:

The only crabs able to walk straight ahead

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Soldier Crabs

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Comments (6)
Mark Ridgway
Must appologise CR... I realise now I was watching Fiddler crabs and not Soldier crabs. Yet another thing I have already learnt from Noah.
Chicquita
Isn't it under arthropods now? The dragonfly logo is confusing.
Chicquita
Ooppps .... my eyes gone silly ... thanks S Frazier ...
Chicquita
I would love to experience that. You are lucky!!!
Mark Ridgway
Wonderful creatures these. I remember watching a blue army and a red army on a beach near Yepoon. The reds would advance en masse, the blues would back off, then the blues would advance and the reds would back off. Never any actual contact though lust lots of 'claw-waving' but very very entertaining.

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Flora & Fauna of New South Wales
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PublishedNovember 27, 2011

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