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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Crustaceans (Crustacea) » Malacostracans (Malacostraca) » Eucarida (Crabs, Crayfish, Shrimp, etc.) (Eucarida) » Crabs, Crayfishes, Lobsters, Prawns, and Shrimp (Decapoda) » True Crabs (Brachyura) » Fiddler Crabs and Ghost Crabs (Ocypodidae) » Ghost Crabs (Ocypode) » Atlantic Ghost Crab (Ocypode quadrata)
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ghost crab - Ocypode quadrata
Copyright © 2019 Molly Jacobson

ghost crab - Ocypode quadrata
Cape May, Cape May County, New Jersey, USA
August 30, 2018
Present in immense numbers at night, from .5 in. to at least 4-5 inches. Difficult to photograph given their skittishness and also sandy and dark conditions... one of the larger ones put its claw right through my fingernail - that took months to heal fully!
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Contributed by Molly Jacobson on 21 January, 2019 - 2:14pm

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