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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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Ocypodid - Ocypode quadrata
Copyright © 2010 Noah Charney

Ocypodid - Ocypode quadrata
St. Vincent Island, Florida Panhandle, Franklin County, Florida, USA
March 22, 2008

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Contributed by Noah Charney on 3 January, 2010 - 12:59pm
Last updated 24 October, 2010 - 8:04pm

Moved
Moved from Fiddler Crabs and Ghost Crabs.
… Charley Eiseman, 24 October, 2010 - 8:04pm login or register to post comments

One species
Only one species of ghost crab on the Atlantic coast (O. quadrata)
… Ray Simpson, 24 October, 2010 - 7:51pm login or register to post comments

 
How do tell this isn't a youn
How do tell this isn't a young female of one of the fiddler species?
… Noah Charney, 25 October, 2010 - 8:23am login or register to post comments

 
the proportions of the eyes a
the proportions of the eyes and legs (ghost crab eyes are larger and the legs are much longer, chunkier claws) to the body and the habitat. Ghost crabs like the open beaches and back dunes on dry sand. Fiddlers usually have burrows in areas affected by tides over mud or muddy sand around low energy Spartina marshes or mangroves
… Ray Simpson, 25 October, 2010 - 11:22am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
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