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The main predators of Emerita are fish; in the eastern Pacific Ocean, the barred surfperch (Amphistichus argenteus) is particularly important. [7] Seabirds also eat Emerita, but do not appear to target the aggregations of mole crabs. [7] Carcasses of Emerita provide an important food source for the closely related scavenger Blepharipoda. [7]
The fiddler crab or calling crab can be one of the hundred species of semiterrestrial marine crabs in the family Ocypodidae. [2] These crabs are well known for their extreme sexual dimorphism, where the male crabs have a major claw significantly larger than their minor claw, whilst females claws are both the same size. [ 3 ]
Gelasimus vomeris is a species of fiddler crab found in the southwest Pacific Ocean. In Australia, it is found in the east and north from Darwin to Sydney. [1]It is commonly known as the two-toned fiddler crab, orange-clawed fiddler crab or Southern calling fiddler crab, however the common name orange-clawed fiddler crab is also used for the fiddler crab Tubuca coarctata. [2]
Leptuca batuenta, commonly known as the beating fiddler crab, is a species of fiddler crab native to the tropical eastern Pacific, from El Salvador to northern Peru. [1]
[1] [2] [3] The common name of these crabs is either the compressed fiddler crab, [4] or the orange-clawed fiddler crab, [5] (although this name is also used for Gelasimus vomeris). They are found on tidal mud flats adjacent mangroves and muddy tidal creek and river banks.
Leptuca subcylindrica, commonly known as the Laguna Madre fiddler crab or the puffed fiddler crab, is a sparsely-studied species of fiddler crab native to southern Texas and northeastern Mexico in the Gulf of Mexico. [1] [2] Before 2016, the species was known as Uca subcylindrica. In 2016, the subgenus Leptuca was promoted to the genus level ...
Gelasimus vocans is a species of fiddler crab. [2] It is found across the Indo-Pacific from the Red Sea, Zanzibar and Madagascar to Indonesia and the central Pacific Ocean. [3] It lives in burrows up to 50 centimetres (20 in) deep. [3]
Leptuca deichmanni, commonly known as Deichmann's fiddler crab, is a species of fiddler crab native to the eastern Pacific coast of Central America, ...