Sand bubbler crab

Sand bubbler crabs
Scopimera globosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Subphylum:
Crustacea
Class:
Malacostraca
Order:
Decapoda
Infraorder:
Brachyura
Family:
Dotillidae
Genus:
Scopimera
De Haan, 1833
Dotilla
Stimpson, 1858
Species

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Sand bubbler crabs (or sand-bubblers) are crabs of the genera Scopimera and Dotilla[1] in the family Dotillidae.[2] They are small crabs that live on sandy beaches in the tropical Indo-Pacific. They feed by filtering sand through their mouthparts, leaving behind balls of sand[3] that are broken up by the incoming high tide.

  1. ^ David P. Maitland (1986). "Crabs that breathe air with their legs - Scopimera and Dotilla". Nature. 319 (6053): 493–495. Bibcode:1986Natur.319..493M. doi:10.1038/319493a0. S2CID 4362098.
  2. ^ Peter K. L. Ng; Danièle Guinot & Peter J. F. Davie (2008). "Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 17: 1–286.
  3. ^ Fothergill, Alastair; Cordey, Huw (2015). The Hunt. Ebury Publishing. p. 138. ISBN 9781448141890.