Cranch's Nut Crab

Ebalia cranchii

• Group: Crab

A small nut crab of European seas, it has a rounded, pebble like shell and lives tucked into soft and gravelly bottoms. Like other members of its group it scavenges and feeds on small bottom dwelling animals.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Arthropoda › Malacostraca › Decapoda › Leucosiidae › Ebalia

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 107294.