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Atlantic ghost crab

noun

Definitions

  1. Burrowing crab of the species Ocypode quadrata

    • The genus Ocypode was erected by Fabricius (1798) for two of his own species (1793), our Atlantic ghost crab and the racing crab of the coasts of India and Malaya.
    • The Atlantic ghost crab is one of the many resident animals likely to greet the Cape Lookout National Seashore beachcomber.
    • But although the Atlantic ghost crab shown in this picture is near the sea, the adult animals are terrestrial, living in burrows that they dig in the sand.

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