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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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Ghost Crab dreams about the ocean's relationship to the beach in a constant state of reverie.
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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.
 
 
 
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