Calling Fiddler Crab

Gelasimus vocans is a species of fiddler crab. It is found across the Indo-Pacific from the Red Sea, Zanzibar and Madagascar to Indonesia and the central Pacific Ocean. It lives in burrows up to 50 centimetres (20 in) deep. Several forms of G. vocans have been recognised, with their authors often granting them the taxonomic rank of full species or subspecies.

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Is it venomous or poisonous?

We have no record of Calling 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

• Gelasimus jocelynae
• Gelasimus hesperiae
• Gelasimus vomeris
• Gelasimus borealis
• Tubuca acuta
• Minuca galapagensis

Classification

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Decapoda

Family

Ocypodidae

Genus

Gelasimus

Species

Gelasimus vocans

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