fiddler crab

And we do know that the fiddler crab has been hurt.

When the tide is out, fiddler crabs search the beach for food.

One was much larger than the other, like the asymmetry of a fiddler crab.

Outside, thousands of fiddler crabs swarmed in large muddy pens on the ground.

Laboratory studies have also found it causes several types of deformities in fiddler crabs.

Each male fiddler crab stands out in front of his burrow waiting for the females to return from eating.

We leaned against rails, watching fiddler crabs rustle across dark mud.

There is no one to pry other than the red fiddler crabs dotting the shore.

The setting is so quiet that sunbathers can hear the skittering of fiddler crabs.

The fiddler crab provides an excellent example of positive allometry.

Fiddler crabs are best known for different sized front claws, with one claw usually much larger than the other.

Like all crabs, fiddler crabs shed their shells as they grow.

Fiddler crabs live rather brief lives of no more than two years (up to three years in captivity).

There are also colonies of fiddler crabs and mud-skippers.

The process of acceptance-rejection is not unlike the lone dance of the fiddler crab.

A water monitor swallows a fiddler crab (top).

Although less extreme than in fiddler crabs, one claw is usually considerably larger than the other.

The fiddler crabs sold in pet stores generally come from brackish water lagoons.

It is the habitat of fiddler crabs.

As in other fiddler crabs, the male has a greatly enlarged claw, which is used for signalling.

Fiddler crabs have one big claw and one small claw.

Fiddler crabs are common on muddy reef shelves.

Thumb-size fiddler crabs raced for their holes as if drawn by some unseen thread.

They really are crabs, almost invisible, almost microscopic fiddler crabs.

A score of tiny brownish fiddler crabs scuttled sideways away from him as he emerged.