Bryer's Nut Crab

Ebalia tumefacta

• Group: Crab

Bryer's nut crab is a small burrowing crab of European seas with a rounded, smooth shell that gives the nut crabs their name. It stays buried in soft sediment and sorts edible particles from the mud it sifts.

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

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 107302.