Sand Crab

Emerita holthuisi

• Group: Crab
• For divers: safe

A small burrowing crab of rocky and sandy shores, the mole crab buries itself in the intertidal as each wave recedes. Mole crabs ride the swash zone, filtering tiny food from the backwash with feathery antennae.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Arthropoda › Malacostraca › Decapoda › Hippidae › Emerita

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 467701.