#4552 · 🦀 crabs & other crustaceans
Atlantic Sand Crab
Emerita talpoida
🦀 Crabs & other crustaceans 📍 outside Europe
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © allysonv · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Joshua Doby · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © tacomalane · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © W. Terry Hunefeld · CC BY 4.0
- 5. © 116916927065934112165 · CC BY 4.0
- 6. © Gary Rosenberg · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Mashpee, MA, US:© Bill · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Block Island, RI, US:© emilykru · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Kings County:© majs007 · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. North Atlantic Ocean, DE, US:© jayce-the-creature-creator · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Emerita talpoida , known generally as the Atlantic mole crab or Atlantic sand crab , is a species of mole crab in the family Hippidae. It is found in Western Atlantic Ocean.
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.
- 8,192 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Thomas Say in 1817 (209 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Atlantic Sand Crab
- scientific name
- Emerita talpoida
- class
- Malacostraca
- order
- Decapoda
- family
- Hippidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 8,192
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1817 by Thomas Say
relatives· Hippidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 47182, Wikidata Q6488839, GBIF 2225699, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.