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crab we found on my residential! it’s about the size of my hand and i can’t remember for the life of me what it’s specific species is called

#undescribed #tw crab #crab

ME WHEN I CRAB YOU ALL

GET CRABBED FOOL

CRUSTACEANS UNITE

ATTACK

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#feral time #crabbing time #me when I crab you #crabbing you all #get crabbed #tw crab #tw crustacean #🦀#🦞

Decorator Crabs are multiple species of crabs who use corals, sponges, urchins, anemones, sea fans, and other marine organisms as self-decoration. This (glamorous) camouflage allows them to blend in with their environments and avoid predators.

(Lesser known fact, it also gives them the self-confidence to pursue their dream careers as professional salsa dancers.)

#I just think this crab looks like a tiny salsa or flamenco dancer and YES that is an art prompt #crab tw #tw crab #which is the better trigger warning tag to use? 'tw' before or after the topic word?

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Halloween Moon Crab (Gecarcinus quadratus)

Family: Gecarcinidae (Land Crab Family)

IUCN Conservation Status: Unassessed

This colourful land-dwelling crab can be found across the western coast of Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama, where it inhabits sand dunes, mangrove swamps and coastal rainforests. Able to extract oxygen from air and well-suited to feeding on terrestrial plants, Halloween Moon Crabs spend most of their adult lives on land and live in burrows that may reach depths of up to 1.5 meters, as burrowing deep underground allows the crabs to retain moisture in the soil around them and thus maintain the moist conditions they need to survive. During the dry season (which lasts from December until April across most of their range) they are rarely seen and will leave their burrows only at night to feed on leaf litter, seeds and young plants, but during the rainy Spring season they depart from their burrows and form massive congregations that may contain thousands of individuals on nearby beaches. Here they mate, and females travel to the ocean to release their eggs into the water before returning to their burrows until the next breeding season. Once the eggs hatch the larvae spend a period of time living as zooplankton before developing into juveniles and drifting to the shore, where they leave the ocean and set fourth into the nearest forest to create a burrow of their own. Although little is known about the current population of wild Halloween Moon Crabs, it is feared that the destruction of forests across most of their range may be causing their numbers to decline.

Image Source: https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/204112-Gecarcinus-quadratus