#4547 · 🦀 crabs & other crustaceans
Atlantic Sand Fiddler Crab
Leptuca pugilator
9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © obrock · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Mary Keim · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 3. © Ty Smith · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Chris Evers · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Michael Rosenberg · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Michael Rosenberg · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © Michael Rosenberg · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. © Michael Rosenberg · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. © James Shelton · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
what is it?
Leptuca pugilator , the sand fiddler crab , Atlantic sand fiddler crab , or Calico fiddler , is a species of fiddler crab that is found from Massachusetts to the Gulf of Mexico. It lives in burrows in coastal and estuarine mud-flats, and can be extremely abundant. It can be differentiated from the morphologically similar Minuca pugnax and Minuca minax by the smoothness of the inside of its claws. One claw is larger than the other, and can be much...
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.
- 9,260 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Atlantic Sand Fiddler Crab
- scientific name
- Leptuca pugilator
- class
- Malacostraca
- order
- Decapoda
- family
- Ocypodidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 9,260
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
relatives· Ocypodidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 555968, Wikidata Q107086608, GBIF 9596149, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.