#4567 · 🦀 crabs & other crustaceans

Mud Fiddler Crab

Minuca pugnax

🦀 Crabs & other crustaceans 📍 outside Europe

8 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Linda · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Suzanne Cadwell · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Ethan Gosnell · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Meagan Fastuca · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Vadim Ingwall Baranovsky · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © mexicoherps · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Rosalind Helfand · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © glenn01 · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Minuca pugnax , commonly known as the Atlantic marsh fiddler crab , is a species of fiddler crab that lives on north-western shores of the Atlantic Ocean.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 5,135iNaturalist observations

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).