Pennant's Nut Crab

Ebalia tuberosa

• Group: Crab

A small nut crab of soft seabeds, it forages through the sediment as a deposit feeder while also preying on swimming animals and scavenging dead crabs and worms. Its rounded, smooth shell helps it burrow into the bottom.

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

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 107301.