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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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Atlantic ghost crab - Ocypode quadrata
Copyright © 2009 Charley Eiseman

Atlantic ghost crab - Ocypode quadrata
Cape Hatteras National Seashore, North Carolina, USA
June 30, 2008
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Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 24 November, 2009 - 3:43am

They are all over in Outer Banks!
They are especially common at night. Take a flash light and look around, and you will most likely find many. That is how I found this in Delaware.
… roar, 23 December, 2009 - 5:24pm login or register to post comments

 
Nice!
Yeah, this was in the middle of the day, and I think this little guy was the only one I actually saw. There were some impressive burrows on the beach though, so I know there were plenty around. Last February I was camping in the Everglades on a tiny little beach and the place was crawling with these in the middle of the night:
… Charley Eiseman, 23 December, 2009 - 5:34pm login or register to post comments

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