Atlantic Marsh Fiddler

Minuca pugnax

• Group: Other

A fiddler crab of salt marshes, the male waves one hugely enlarged claw to court mates and warn off rivals. It digs and tends burrows in clay and mud, choosing ground where the root mat gives the tunnels firm structure.

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

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 955270.