#4544 · 🦀 crabs & other crustaceans
Pacific Sand Crab
Emerita analoga
🦀 Crabs & other crustaceans 📍 outside Europe
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Thorny Toad Photography · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Alan Holyoak · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Thorny Toad Photography · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Robin Gwen Agarwal · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Alex Heyman · CC0
- 6. © bugzilla · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © dlbowls · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. © Andrea Kreuzhage · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. © Asa Spade · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. © Andrea Kreuzhage · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Emerita analoga , the Pacific sand crab or Pacific mole crab , is a species of small, sand-burrowing decapod crustacean found living in the sand along the temperate western coasts of America. Also found on the eastern coasts (New Jersey) It is found on exposed sandy beaches in the swash region of the intertidal zone.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 11,133 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by William Stimpson in 1857 (169 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Pacific Sand Crab
- scientific name
- Emerita analoga
- class
- Malacostraca
- order
- Decapoda
- family
- Hippidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 11,133
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1857 by William Stimpson
relatives· Hippidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 47414, Wikidata Q3014312, GBIF 2225698, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.