Mangrove Fiddler

Leptuca thayeri

• Group: Other

A mangrove fiddler crab that lives in burrows across the mud from the high tide line down into the intertidal, sometimes scaling mangrove prop roots. It picks through the mud surface for tiny organisms, sorting edible scraps grain by grain.

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

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 955251.