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ghost crab
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ghost crab
n.
Any of several light-colored burrowing crabs of the genus Ocypoda frequenting the tide line along sandy shores from the northeast United States to Brazil. Also called white crab.


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Instead, the hydroid facilitates predation by the portunid speckled crab Arenaeus cribrarius and the semiterrestrial ghost crab Ocypode quadrata (Manning & Lindquist 2003), although one other investigation showed that L.
Some aspects of osmotic and ionic regulation in the blue crab, Callinectes sapidus, and the ghost crab, Ocypode albicans.
The first part of this study looked at measuring body temperature at several different places, on and inside, the ghost crab Ocypode quadrata.
 
 
 
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