Mangrove crabs are crabs that live in and around mangroves. They belong to many different species and families and have been shown to be ecologically significant by burying and consuming leaf litter.
Red mangrove crab Neosarmatium meinerti
The fiddler crab or calling crab is any of the hundred species of semiterrestrial marine crabs in the family Ocypodidae. These crabs are well known for their extreme sexual dimorphism, where the male
Mangrove crab
…variety of phylogenies because mangrove crab is an umbrella term that encompasses many species of crabs. Two of the most common families are sesarmid and fiddler crabs. They are omnivorous and are predated on by a variety of mammals and fish. They are distributed widely throughout the globe on coasts where mangroves…
Compressed fiddler crab Tubuca coarctata male in Rinca, Indonesia
Leptuca leptodactyla in El Guamache, Margarita Island, Venezuela