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Mud Fiddler Crab

Minuca pugnax

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Massachusetts.January 44, February 40, March 48, April 79, May 145, June 76, July 108, August 131, September 107, October 61, November 45, December 42.
United States3,771
Massachusetts854
New Jersey762
Delaware556
New York521
Virginia459
Maryland436
Connecticut330
South Carolina287
Rhode Island97

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Physical

  • ExoskeletonHas a hard external skeletonFrom its classification

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumArthropods · Arthropoda
ClassMalacostracans · Malacostraca
OrderDecapods · Decapoda
FamilyGhost and Fiddler Crabs · Ocypodidae
GenusMinuca

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