Heaping Fiddler Crab

Leptuca cumulanta

• Group: Crab

A fiddler crab of the lower intertidal, it lives on muddy and sandy shores below the mid tide line. It sifts food particles from the sediment, and the male waves one enlarged claw to signal across the flats.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Arthropoda › Malacostraca › Decapoda › Ocypodidae › Leptuca

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 955222.