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Fiddler crab

Una sp.

Photo by SukanyaDatta
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13.07, 92.47

Field Notes

Description:

Like all fiddler crabs, one of the claws is disproportionately large in males. Sqiggly pattern on the carapace as if someone has written on it.

Habitat:

It came out to feed as the tide receded exposing a lot of sand...not a beach.I was a few feet above it.

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Fiddler crab

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