ghost crab

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ghost crab

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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In this simple account of the intriguing birth pilgrimage of one of earth's oldest creatures, spare prose and fine paintings emphasize the sequence of animal encounters that reduce the eggs and hatchlings to one lone survivor: raccoons immediately dig up and eat thirty-six of the eggs; then ghost crabs, a blue heron, a sand shark, and gulls fight over and feed on the emerging hatchlings.

Stephen R. Swinburne: Turtle Tide: The Ways of Sea Turtles by Bush, Margaret A. / The Horn Book Magazine

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