Thick-legged Fiddler Crab (Paraleptuca crassipes)

Thick-legged Fiddler Crab, a reference photo — Photo: Thomas Brown · CC BY 2.0 (licence)

Paraleptuca crassipes or the thick-legged fiddler crab is a species of fiddler crab that lives in intertidal habitats distributed across the western Pacific Ocean.

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Is it venomous or poisonous?

We have no record of Thick-legged Fiddler Crab being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.

Easily confused with

Paraleptuca splendida
Gelasimus tetragonon
Paraleptuca chlorophthalmus
Tubuca signata
Tubuca rosea
Tubuca flammula

Classification

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Family: Ocypodidae
Genus: Paraleptuca
Species: Paraleptuca crassipes

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