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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) » Hermit Crabs and Mole Crabs (Anomura) » Hippoidea » Mole Crabs (Hippidae) » Emerita » Pacific Mole Crab (Emerita analoga)

Species Emerita analoga - Pacific Mole Crab

Classification · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Life Cycle · Remarks · Internet References
sand crab - Emerita analoga Pacific Mole Crab - Emerita analoga Pacific Mole Crab - Emerita analoga Pacific Mole Crab - Emerita analoga Emerita - Emerita analoga Emerita - Emerita analoga
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Crustacea (Crustaceans)
Class Malacostraca (Malacostracans)
Superorder Eucarida (Eucarida (Crabs, Crayfish, Shrimp, etc.))
Order Decapoda (Crabs, Crayfishes, Lobsters, Prawns, and Shrimp)
Infraorder Anomura (Hermit Crabs and Mole Crabs)
Superfamily Hippoidea
Family Hippidae (Mole Crabs)
Genus Emerita
Species analoga (Pacific Mole Crab)
Other Common Names
Pacific Sand Crab
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Hippa analoga; Stimpson, 1857
Size
Carapace up to 35mm in length.
Identification
Carapace greenish to grey with fine stripes or speckles of light color anteriorly; pinkish laterally. First pereopod pink and white, other appendages mostly pinkish. Abdomen gray, telson white, with two pink stripes. First pair of legs lacking claws.
Range
Pacific Coast from Vancouver, Canada south to Chile
Habitat
Marine shoreline; in sand along wavebreak
Life Cycle
Found between tidemarks on sandy beaches where it burrows into the sand, leaving their feathery second antennae exposed in order to filter food particles from the backwash of waves.
Remarks
This is the only species of the genus found on the Pacific Coast of North America
Internet References
World Register of Marine Species
eNature.com
UCSC Seymour Center
Crustacea of Southern California
Contributed by Jason D. Roberts on 26 December, 2011 - 12:32am

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