This crustacean on the Texas coast has one comically oversized claw. Meet the fiddler crab

The fiddler crab is one of the most entertaining — and ecologically important — residents of our shoreline, Jace Tunnell ...
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Undersea parasite turns male mud crabs female

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. One such parasite lurks in Chesapeake Bay: an invasive barnacle that hijacks a mud crab’s reproductive system and impregnates it with parasite ...
Men's Journal

Man goes to the extreme to catch giant mud crab by hand

Beau Greaves described his technique on catching a mud crab then disappeared halfway into a hole before emerging with the popular Australian delicacy. Mud crabs are considered a prized delicacy in the ...
The Courier-Mail

Man fined $15,000 for undersized crabs and fish caught in northern Gold Coast waterways

A HAUL of mud crabs from northern Gold Coast waterways has cost a Woodridge man more than he bargained for. The Queensland Boating and Fisheries Patrol (QBFP) officers caught the man with four ...
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DIFFERENCES IN THE USE OF CHELIPED AUTOTOMY BY THE MUD FIDDLER CRAB UCA PUGNAX (SMITH, 1870) (DECAPODA, OCYPODIDAE) WHEN ESCAPING PREDATION BY THE ...

Crustaceana, Vol. 84, No. 11 (October 2011), pp. 1281-1293 (13 pages) Autotomy of limbs has been observed for a variety of organisms and in some taxa has been shown to be an effective strategy for ...