Tags: Crustacean.

Ocypode brevicornis is a species of ghost crabs native to the Indian Ocean from the Gulf of Oman to the Nicobar Islands. They are relatively large ghost crabs with a somewhat trapezoidal body. The carapace reaches a length of 41 mm (1.6 in) and a width of 50 mm (2.0 in). They are a mottled brown to yellow in coloration. Like other ghost crabs one of their claws is much larger than the other. Their eyestalks are large and elongated tipped with prolongations at the tip known as styles.

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