Atlantic Sand Fiddler

Leptuca pugilator

• Group: Other

Males of this fiddler crab wave one hugely enlarged claw to court mates and warn off rivals along sandy upper shores and marshes. It digs two kinds of burrow, one as a daytime refuge and another for breeding, and lives behind the mangroves that fringe its home.

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

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 955239.